Osmanthus Cheese Milk Pudding | Finished with Rock Sugar Syrup

Some desserts are all about texture. This one is soft enough to wobble on the spoon.

Osmanthus cheese milk pudding is milk set gently with gelatine, scented with osmanthus and a little cheese for richness. It needs no oven and only a few ingredients. The finishing touch is a pour of rock sugar syrup over the cubes.

The sugar

Rock Sugar Syrup (冰糖漿) is made from traditional rock sugar and comes ready to pour. Its sweetness is clean and gentle.

A cold dessert is hard to sweeten with crystals, because they will not dissolve. A syrup solves that. Poured over the cubes just before serving, it pools at the bottom of the bowl and coats each piece, so the pudding itself can stay lightly sweet.

The osmanthus honey in the video is made with Ship Brand Crystal Rock Sugar (黃冰糖), sweet without turning heavy.

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Getting a silky set

Keep the heat low. Warming the milk to around 60°C, rather than boiling it, holds on to the milk and osmanthus aroma. Make sure the gelatine is fully melted before you stop stirring, and strain the mixture once before pouring, so the finished pudding has no grains or bits.

Recipe

Osmanthus Cheese Milk Pudding

Ingredients

• Gelatine sheets 12g
• Whole milk 500g
• Cheese slice
• Osmanthus honey
• Dried osmanthus, plus extra to finish
• Ship Brand Rock Sugar Syrup, to serve

Method

1. Soak the gelatine sheets in room-temperature water until soft.
2. Pour the milk into a pan. Add the cheese slice, osmanthus honey, and dried osmanthus.
3. Warm over low heat, stirring slowly, and hold the temperature at around 60°C.
4. Add the softened gelatine and stir until it has fully melted.
5. Strain the mixture and pour it into a container. Chill in the fridge until fully set.
6. Cut the pudding into even cubes and place them in a bowl.
7. Pour Rock Sugar Syrup over the top and finish with a sprinkle of dried osmanthus.

Closing

Cold, smooth, and fragrant, with just enough sweetness from the syrup. It is an easy dessert to make ahead and keep in the fridge.

Ship Brand (帆船牌) is the retail line of Yuen Tung Sugar Factory Industrial Company Limited. Sugar refined in Hong Kong since 1987. Shop the collection.