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\ud83c\udf41 What is pouding ch\u00f4meur?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Pouding ch\u00f4meur translates, more or less, to “unemployed man’s pudding.” It came out of Quebec during the Great Depression, when families were feeding everybody on flour, butter, sugar and whatever else was already in the cupboard. The trick was to pour a hot syrup into the dish first, drop a plain cake batter on top, and let the oven sort it out. Nobody was trying to invent a classic. They were trying to put dessert on the table for pennies. Ninety years later it is still the dessert every Quebec grandmother makes, and this is the maple version, the one I grew up on between my grandmother’s kitchen, my mother’s, and a few hundred trips to the sugar shack.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd25 Why the maple syrup ends up as a sauce under the cake<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This is the part that throws people the first time. You boil maple syrup with 35% cream, pour that hot liquid into the bottom of a 9 x 13 dish, then spoon the batter over it. In the oven the batter floats and sets on top while the syrup bubbles underneath and reduces. The bottom of the cake drinks it up and turns dense and caramelized. The top stays golden and light. Two textures out of one batter, and you never stirred them together.<\/p>\n

Two rules and the dish takes care of itself. Do not overmix the batter, or you pull a loaf of bread out of that pan. And let it rest 20 minutes before you cut in, because the sauce is still thin and boiling when it comes out of the oven.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf66 How I serve maple pouding ch\u00f4meur<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Warm, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream melting into it. That is the sugar shack way and I have never found better. Maple ice cream on a maple pudding cake, if you want the whole thing doubled up. Some people drizzle more syrup over the top. I don’t. It is sweet enough already and I would rather taste the cake.<\/p>\n

One 9 x 13 feeds six, which makes it the dessert I pull out for a Sunday family supper or a cold winter brunch when everybody needs something warm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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