Golden Puff Dumplings

Ingredients:

• 1 cup SR flour
• pinch salt
• 25g butter
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1 tbsp milk ot moisten
• 375 ml water
• 160g sugar
• 35g butter, extra
• 1.5 tbsp golden syrup
• lemon for squeezing (optional)

Method:

• cut the 25g of butter throught the flour and salt (you can rub it in a bit if you like).
• Add the egg and enough milk to make a dough.
• Roll into 10-12 evenly sized small balls
• To make sauce, heat the water, sugar and extra butter and golden syrup in a mediam-sized pan until boiling.
• Plop in the dumplings, put on a lid and immer for 15 min, adding a squeeze of lemon juice to make it a little more 'adult'
• serve with bay leaf custard or vanilla ice-cream