Golden Syrup Dumplings

One of those dishes that evoke childhood memories, even if you never ate it as a kid! Quick, cheap, easy. It'll please everyone.

Golden Syrup Dumplings served with ice cream
  • Degree of Difficulty: Very Easy
  • Cost: $
  • Preparation Time: 5 minutes 
  • Cooking Time: 10 minutes  
  • Yields: 2 - 3 portions
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  • By: Nicolas Steenhout

Dumplings are not made much anymore. I assure you this dish is highly worth "resurecting". Perfect Winter evening sweet. Get the kids involved and helping you making it! Recipe adapted from @elpie

 
 

Recipe

Ingredients

Dumplings

  • 250 ml (1 cup) Self-Raising Flour
    or
    250 ml (1 cup) Flour + 10 ml (1 1/3 teaspoon) Baking Powder)
  • 60 ml (2 tablespoons) Butter
  • 1 Egg
  • 65 ml (1/4 cup) Milk

Syrup

  • 250 ml (1 cup) Water
  • 60 ml (2 tablespoon) Golden Syrup
  • 15 g (1 tablespoon) Butter
  • 90 ml (3 tablespoon) Brown Sugar

Golden Syrup is common in New Zealand and Australia, also in the UK. Those of you in the United States or Canada - you are likely to be able to find it. It is one of those things that is on the shelf of a lot of supermarkets but that we don't pay attention to. Learn more about Golden Syrup on Wikipedia.

Preparation

Syrup

  1. Put the water, golden syrup, butter and brown sugar in a pot on the stove on high.

Dumplings

  1. While the syrup is heating up, put the flour in a bowl.
  2. Add the butter. It should be soft, but cold.
  3. Rub the butter in the flour between your hands. This will spread the butter throughout the flour. You will end up with small pea sized lumps of butter throughout.
  4. Beat the egg lightly and add the milk.
  5. Add the milk and egg to the flour and butter.
  6. Gently mix until you have a thick and sticky dough. I often use two fingers to mix.
  7. Drop the batter in the boiling syrup. I like to use a spoon or ice cream scoop for this. You should be able to make about 6 dumplings.
  8. Control the temperature to a simmer.
  9. Cover with a lid.
  10. Cook 5 minutes.

Finition

  1. Serve 1 or 2 dumplings with some syrup on top. You can serve it with cream or ice cream, too.

Photos

Measuring brown sugar for the syrup
Measuring brown sugar for the syrup

Adding golden syrup to the water syrup
Adding golden syrup to the pot with water, brown sugar and butter for the syrup.

Small lumps of cold and soft butter in the dumpling flour.
Small lumps of cold and soft butter in the dumpling flour.

The butter rubbed in small pea size lumps in the flour
After rubbing the butter in the flour with your hands, you end up with very small lumps of butter throughout the flour. Some people use a kitchen robot to do this.

Egg and milk added to the flour and butter
The lightly beaten eggs with the milk, poured in a small well in the buttered flour.

mixing the dumplings
Using a finger to quickly and gently mix the dumpling batter / dough.

The dumpling batter ready to go
The batter is ready to be cooked. By this time, your syrup should be boiling.

Using an ice cream scoop to measure the batter.
Using an ice cream scoop to measure the dumpling batter in 6 equal parts.

Dropping the dumplings in syrup
Dropping the measured batter in the boiling syrup, one at a time.

6 dumpling cooking in boiling syrup
Our 6 dumplings, cooking in boiling syrup.

Using a bowl as a lid
Cover the pot with a lid. I did not have a lid handy, so used my stainless steal bowl - this is a trick of the trade - works in a pinch!

The dumplings are cooked
Cooked dumplings still in their syrup, ready to serve

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3 Responses to “Golden Syrup Dumplings”

  1. Sounds so tasty. I never boiled dumplings in syrup before, only in water.
    But how the heck do I manage to have soft yet cold butter?

    Comment by: Benedikta - August 8th, 2010 @ 17:13

  2. Most excellent question!

    The trick is to beat the butter. :) Put the cold butter between two layers of cling film, such as Saran or Glad wrap, then on a strong cutting board, beat the butter with a rolling pin.

    Comment by: Nic - August 8th, 2010 @ 17:16

  3. Thank you, Nic. It would have never crossed my mind. Now I will have to go and find the Golden Syrup. :-)

    Comment by: Benedikta - August 8th, 2010 @ 19:06

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