Method
Prep:10min  ›  Cook:35min  ›  Ready in:45min 

1. Pick over the fruit, rinse it if necessary and place it, still damp, in a wide, deep frying pan or large saucepan, then add the sugar and stir. Cover the pan and simmer the fruit over a low heat for 15 minutes, shaking the pan or stirring frequently to prevent the fruit sticking. As the fruit slowly simmers, it should ‘slump’, or soften, into a textured sauce.
2. Meanwhile, to make the dumplings, place the flour in a mixing bowl and stir in the salt and sugar. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs, then quickly stir in the egg and milk to make a dough. Divide the dough in half and shape each half into eight walnut-size dumplings, to make a total of 16.
3. When the fruit has simmered into a sauce, drop the dumplings into it, spacing them as far apart as possible. Cover and continue simmering for 8 minutes, then turn the dumplings over, cover again and simmer for a further 8 minutes.
4. Serve four dumplings per person with a little sauce, accompanied by 1 tablespoon of low-fat iced dessert or natural yoghurt.