Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, christmas pudding. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Christmas pudding is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Christmas pudding is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
This is just like traditional Christmas pudding, but with less fat. The house smells great all day long. It's wonderful served with rum or cranberry sauce.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas pudding using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas pudding:
- Get 500 g Waitrose brandy-soaked mixed fruits-make your own overnight
- Get 80 ml brandy
- Prepare 100 g plain flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 125 g fresh breadcrumbs (you can use white bread)
- Take 175 g dark brown sugar
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
- Get Grated zest of 1 lemon(or orange)
- Prepare 150 g shredded vegetable suet
- Make ready 1 cooking apple peeled and grated
- Get 50 g almond flakes
- Take 3 eggs beaten
- Take Butter or vegetable spread for greasing
Get motivated in November to make your Christmas pudding to have it mature in time for Christmas. Unlike American puddings, a Christmas pudding is a dark, sticky, and dense sponge, more like a fruitcake, made of mixed dried fruit, candied fruit peel, apple, and citrus zests. Brandy and spices provide a deep, complex flavor and signature dark color. Christmas pudding is best made well in advance to Native to Great Britain, this festive dessert is known for its density and intense Christmas spices, dried fruit, and brandy.
Steps to make Christmas pudding:
- Soak fruits overnight in brandy if using your own mix. I soaked them in 80 ml of brandy just as I start getting mix ready for extra alcohol.
- Mix flour, baking powder, fresh breadcrumbs, sugar, spices, lemon zest, suet, apple and almonds in big bowl.
- Add fruit and remaining juices to the flour mix
- Beat the eggs and add to mixture. Stir to mix well.
- Prepare pudding basin: butter (use veg spread if preferred) a 1.2litre basin. Put disc of baking paper in the base
- Pour mixture in prepared basin
- Cover with a double sheet of baking paper and add two layers of foil on top. Tie all the layers with a secure knot and arrange handle to be able to lift pudding
- Place pudding in a large pan(I use my maslin pan which I use for preserves) and fill halfway with water. Cover with a lid and steam for 6 hours.
- You may have to top water up every now and again as it evaporates.
- After steaming lift pudding from the pan and let it cool completely. Remove foil and baking parchment and cover with new sheets.
- Store in cool dark place for up to 6 weeks.
- To reheat steam for 2 hours as before until piping hot. Invert pudding into large plate to serve
- I like mine with brandy sauce but everyone else at home will have it with custard instead.
- To flame the pudding warm 100ml of brandy in a small saucepan but do not let it boil. Pour over the pudding and quickly ignite keeping at arms length.
Similar to an American fruit cake, Christmas pudding is more like a loaf cake packed with an assortment of fruits (like purple raisins, golden raisins, prunes, dried currants, and crystallized ginger) that soak overnight in booze and orange zest. Christmas pudding is a type of pudding traditionally served as part of the Christmas dinner in the UK, Ireland and in other countries where it has been brought by British and Irish immigrants. It has its origins in medieval England, and is sometimes known as plum pudding or just "pud", though this can also refer to other kinds of boiled pudding involving dried fruit. Make this lighter version of a classic Christmas pudding as an alternative festive dessrt.. I did substitute figs for the prunes, and equal cranberry and cherries for the sultanas.
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