Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, christmas pudding. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas Pudding is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Christmas Pudding is something which I have loved my whole life.
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 particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas pudding using 18 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Pudding:
- Take 8 oz shredded suet, vegetarian is fine
- Prepare 1 dessert spoon mixed spice
- Prepare 1/2 tea spoon grated nutmeg
- Get 1/4 tea spoon ground cinnamon
- Prepare 4 oz self raising flour
- Make ready 1 lb soft Brown sugar (I used muscovado)
- Get 12 oz white breadcrumbs (from stale bread) **
- Make ready 12 oz sultanas
- Make ready 1 lb currants
- Make ready 4 oz glace cherries, quartered
- Prepare 2 oz chopped almonds
- Make ready 2 oz chopped candied mixed peel
- Get Finely grated peel (zest) of 1 orange and 1 lemon
- Make ready 1 green Apple, peeled cored and finely chopped
- Get 4 eggs
- Get 10 fl oz stout (I used Guinness) ##
- Prepare 4 Tablespoons brandy or dark rum, or substitute orange juice
- Get 2 tablespoons brandy or rum, for 'Flaming'. Optional
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:
- Place first seven ingredients in a large bowl, mix thoroughly, you can use your hands for this, add the fruit, candied peel and nuts, mix well, add the Apple and grated peel. Mix well, use a wooden spoon now.
- In another bowl or jug whisk the eggs, add the stout and brandy / rum and whisk again.
- Pour this mixture into the dry ingredients and mix well. Mixture should be 'dropping consistency, I.e just drop off spoon. If too stiff add drop more stout or orange juice.
- It is traditional for all family members to 'Stir and make a wish' at this point
- Cover bowl with cling film or a damp cloth, leave overnight for flavours to develope, stir again.
- Grease two 2 pint pudding basins, fill to brim with mixture, pack it down if necessary, cover with a disc of greaseproof paper, cover with aluminium foil or a pudding cloth, tie with string below the rim,fold the foil or cloth over the top. If using a flat bottom basin you can place a disc of greaseproof paper at the bottom to ease tipping out the pudding, remove before step 11 ignition !
- You now have a choice, either steam the puddings for 8 hours, make sure they don't boil dry. Or, cook in a pressure cooker, cook without pressure for 30 minutes, then at full (15 lb) pressure for 90 minutes.
- When cooked and cooled remove foil/ cloth and paper and replace with fresh. Store in a cool, dry place, will keep 12 months or more if stored correctly.
- When required either steam for two hours or pressure cook at full (15lb) pressure for 20 minutes, allow to de-pressurise before opening.
- Remove foil / cloth and paper, place a large plate on top, invert and shake out pudding.
- Now the 'Best Bit, pour over two tablespoons of brandy or rum and carefully ignite. This step is optional.Allow to flame out, cut in to wedges and serve.
- Serve with your choice of custard, cream(whipped or runny) and/ or brandy butter.
- This pudding is very rich, so be aware when serving !
- Will post photo of 'actual' pudding when dished up on Christmas day (if I remember !)
- If you don't have a stale loaf, make breadcrumbs from fresh bread and dry, without colouring, in a low oven. *
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You can use 5 fl oz Barley wine (if you can find it !) and 5 fl oz stout
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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