Saturday Kitchen: Sticky toffee pudding from the village of Cartmell revealed by Rick Stein

Chef and food writer Rick Stein visits the village of Cartmell to see how a well-loved British pudding saved the village shop.

Baker Jean Johns is well known in her community as the lady who makes one of the best sticky toffee puddings in the country, and it was thanks to the sale of her puddings that the village shop was saved.

Jean makes her delicious puddings from her kitchen at home and started making them on a very small scale, but now demand has grown so much so that her cake making has become a full time job.

Her business as even spread to America where her son set up a company called The English Pudding Company and sells his mums delicious dessert.

Jean makes her Sticky Toffee pudding by creaming sugar and butter in a mixer then adds vanilla extract and free-range eggs. She then puts chopped dates in boiling water to soften, before adding self-raising flour to the mixer followed by bicarbonate soda to make everything light.

She then adds the date mixture to the mixer stirs it and then place into baking trays and into the oven.