Pineapple Pecan Pudding

 Pineapple Pecan Pudding

    Okay, so I was super excited to make this. The original recipe is in the 1972, 6th printing of Better Homes & Gardens Jiffy Cooking cookbook. I've made minor adaptations, including using pancake/waffle mix, but followed the directions in the original recipe (see photo). 

    Pre-heat your oven to 375 degrees and grease a 10x6x1 1/2 inch pan. Drain your pineapple and reserve the liquid (syrup). Mix your pineapple and biscuit mix/pancake mix; add the chopped pecans and milk, stirring until all ingredients are combined. Spread this mix in your greased pan. Make a syrup by adding water to your reserved pineapple liquid, to make 1 1/2 cups. Combine your liquid with 1/2 cup brown sugar, 2 tablespoons butter or margarine, a dash of ground cinnamon and a dash of nutmeg. I used a couple dashes of cinnamon. Stir this mix in a saucepan until boiling and pour it over the batter mix in your pan. Transfer your pan to your oven, carefully (mine came very close to the cop and I was glad I didn't spell any) and bake for 35 to 40 minutes.  I baked mine for 35 minutes. 

    The recipe suggests serving warm with vanilla ice cream, which I did, but you could use whipped cream and that would be just as good. The verdict? This was good. I really liked it. The "pudding" was a nice cake-y consistency and didn't taste overly sweet.  You could easily get 6 to 8 servings as the recipe suggests. 

Let me know if you try this and how you like it.  

Ingredients:

2 1/2 (20 1/2 oz) cups pineapple tidbits (I used crushed)

1 1/2 cups packaged biscuit mix (I used pancake/waffle mix)

1/2 cup chopped pecans

1/3 cup milk

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 tablespoons butter

Dash nutmeg

Dash cinnamon (I used 3 dashes)

The finished product. Yummy!

The original recipe directions.

The batter part; I wanted to show what it should look like. 

In the oven!

Out of the oven! I love this little pan.

A close up of the top.

Close up of the pudding. You can see the lovely texture, pecans and pineapple. I was really happy with the texture of this.