Name: Pouding du chômeur
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Ingredients: 250 ml maple syrup; 200 ml heavy cream; 140 g flour; 100 g brown sugar; 10 g baking powder; 80 g butter; 1 egg

The literal translation of this traditional dessert from Quebec (Canada) is “Pudding of the Unemployed“

The pouring du chômeur recipe was born out of the necessity, during the economic crisis of 1929, to prepare a dessert, which would provide calories with cheap ingredients.

Pouding du chômeur

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

45 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

250 ml maple syrup

200 ml heavy cream

140 g flour

100 g brown sugar

10 g baking powder

80 g butter

1 egg

Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 180º
Heat the heavy cream in a saucepan with the maple syrup, without making it boil
In a bowl, mix the flour, the sugar, the baking powder, the melted butter, and the egg
Mix until you reach a dough with a sticky consistency
Place the dough in the mold
Pour the liquid obtained from the mix of the heavy cream and the syrup to the dough
Bake for 30 minutes. You will see bubbles forming up, until the dough hardens.

Notes

The maple syrup is harder to find and is not exactly cheap... One option is to prepare a syrup with cane sugar. You will need: - 330 gr sugar - 270 ml hot water - 21 gr butter - A few drops of vanilla extract Place all the ingredients in a saucepan and let them heat together. Voilà your syrup!