Old-Fashioned Chocolate Pudding

This chocolate pudding was our comfort food.

Whenever we were home sick from school, we were sent to my grandmother’s house in the next town, to stay with her for the day. She would always make us this chocolate pudding, and serve it to us in these colourful bowls.

This chocolate pudding became known as Grammie Churchill’s pudding, and I always think of her when I make it.

This is me wearing Grammie’s wedding dress in a Girl Guide fashion show.

However, it wasn’t until much later that I discovered that this well-worn recipe from Grammie’s recipe box actually originally came from my mom’s side of the family – from HER grandmother.

My great-grandmother who lived to be 96.

This is a very old-fashioned recipe. I would describe it as chocolate biscuit dough with a chocolate sauce.
You need to trust the recipe!

Chocolate Pudding

¼ Cup sugar
¼ Cup shortening OR butter
1 Cup flour
2 ½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
½ c milk
3 TBSP cocoa
1 TBSP butter

Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.

Put in a casserole dish.

Over the batter pour:
2/3 Cup brown sugar
2 Cups water

This will look soupy.

My husband, when he saw it said to me, “are you going to mix that more?”

No. No, I’m not.
Trust me.

Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes until the batter is cooked through.

Enjoy with vanilla ice cream!