Summer Pudding

[Tilly2]

I am in the process of making a Summer Pudding, using strawberries, raspberries and some of the blackcurrants I picked earlier in the week. I have simmered and strained the blackcurrants through a sieve.

My question is 'How do I get the wretched seeds out of the holes in the sieve?????????????'

[Smowball]

I boil the kettle and pour that over the sieve- usually works.

[woofgang]

get a washing up brush or old toothbrush and scrub the outside of the sieve under cold running water.

[Smowball]

or else you have about 15 hours work with a cocktail stick lol

[tenrec]

^^ what woofgang says!

[Tilly2]

I've done the scrubbing brush bit. They seem to be permanently jammed in. (excuse the pun)

[jan01]

often if you let the sieve dry out completely the seeds will flake or scrape off ..

[Tilly2]

Right, I'll just leave it then. Thanks for that.

[atalanta]

Why did you sieve them in the first place ? usually, fruit goes into summer pudding whole. Cooked, maybe, but not sieved.

[Tilly2]

I didn't want all those hard, woody bits from the end of the blackcurrants.

[Tilly2]

I left the sieve to dry and all the seeds came out easily.
Thank you, jan01.