This is real comfort food. Warming with a light kick of spice. It's surprisingly easy and ready in just over 2 hours. The beef tallow adds extra richness without any heaviness.

• Ingredients
  Greasing Slow Cooker
  20ml Beef Tallow
  
  Soaking Dates
  150g Medjool Dates
  100ml Boiling Water
  
  Pudding
  75g Beef Tallow
  100g Dark Muscovado Sugar
  50g Caster Sugar
  2 Eggs
  175g Self Raising Flour
  1 tsp Bicarb of Soda
  2 tsp Vanilla Extract
  Pinch of Nutmeg
  Pinch of Seasalt
  
  - Sauce
  150g Dark Muscovado Sugar
  400ml Boiling Water
  
  Method
• Soak very finely chopped dates in enough boiling water for at least 30 minutes, ideally for an hour.
• Grease slow cooker with melted tallow or line if preferred.
• Mix all pudding ingredients until smooth, drain dates and fold in.
  Spoon pudding mixture into slow cooker and even out.
• To make sauce, sprinkle sugar evenly over the top and slowly pour the boiling water over.
• Cook on high for 2 to 2.5 hours until cooked through.
• Best served immediately with ice cream or custard.