Malva pudding
A soft, spongy apricot-jam pudding soaked in a hot cream-and-butter sauce until it is dense and syrupy: the standard finish to a Sunday or festive meal.
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- Malva puddingSouth African English / Afrikaans
MEANING
A dessert of hospitality rather than restraint: it is meant to be rich, and second helpings are expected, not merely tolerated.
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Named components, not a recipe: no quantities, no method unless the making itself is part of the custom.
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Provenance
- generated: 2026-07-10
- source: Model-knowledge aggregation pass (2026-07-10); unverified, awaiting community affirmation.
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