Butterscotch Dumplings - cooking recipe

Ingredients

Dumplings
1 cup self raising flour
60 g chopped butter
2 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon golden syrup
Sauce
1 1/2 cups water
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
30 g butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup

Preparation

preheat oven to 180\u00b0C.
lightly grease a shallow 2l ovenproof dish.
sift flour into a large bowl, rub in butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
add water and golden syrup and mix to a soft sticky dough.
divide into about 10 equal portions and shape into round dumplings, place in dish.
make the butterscotch sauce by combining all ingrediants in a saucepan
stir over a low heat until sugar has dissolved.
bring to the boil then remove from heat.
pour sauce over the dumplings and bake 20 mins.
turn dumplings and spoon over sauce and bake a further 10 mins.
serve immediately with icecream.