James Martin served up a delicious classic steamed syrup pudding with vanilla bean paste orange custard on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients for the sponge are: 200g butter, softened, 200g caster sugar, 4 eggs, 200g self-rising flour, 1 tbs vanilla bean paste, 1 orange zest and 150ml golden syrup.

For the custard: 8 egg yolks, 75g caster sugar, 300ml milk, 300ml double cream and Orange juice – from orange used above.

See recipes by James in his book titled: Complete Home Comforts: Over 150 delicious comfort-food classics available from Amazon now.