Figgy Duff

Name: Figgy Duff
Prep time: 23 min
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h 23 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: 2 cups all purpose flour; ½ cup brown sugar; 2 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp ginger; 1 tsp allspice; 1 tsp cinnamon; 1 cup raisins; ⅓ cup melted butter; ½ cup molasse; 1 tbsp water

A weekend Canadian dessert. Ready in about 5 hours 23 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.

23 minPrep (about)
5 hrCook (about)
5 hr 23 minTotal time
4Servings
More effortDifficulty

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Ingredients

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2 ½ cups all purpose flour
⅔ cup brown sugar
2 ½ tsp baking powder
1 ¼ tsp ginger
1 ¼ cups raisins
½ cup melted butter
⅔ cup molasse
1 ½ tbsp water

Spices & seasonings (2): allspice, cinnamon

1 ¼ tsp allspice
1 ¼ tsp cinnamon

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

Whisk flour in a medium bowl.
Brown sugar, baking powder, and spices.
Add raisins.
Mix fully, making sure to coat your raisins in the flour mixture.
Add melted butter, molasses and water.
Mix with a wooden spoon.
Form a ball using the spoon or your hands.
Put your dough ball in a cotton pudding bag.
Tie your bag, leaving at least inch of room to let the pudding to expand while cooking.
Boil pudding for 1.5 hours.
Wait until the duff is firm.
Remove it from the boiling water.
Let it cool a bit before removing it from the pudding bag.
Slice pudding like a cake.
Dish up using your warm sauce of choice: rum butter sauce, molasses or Molasses Coady (1 ¼ cups (1 ¼ cups + 1 tbsp), 1 4 cup (60 ) butter, 1 4 cup ( mL) water) is common in Newfoundland.