Christmas pudding
Christmas pudding

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, christmas pudding. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Directions The day before you want to steam the pudding: In a large bowl, thoroughly mix the suet, brown sugar, sifted flour, breadcrumbs, allspice, clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Serve up some traditional puddings this Christmas. Christmas pudding is a type of pudding traditionally served as part of the Christmas dinner in the UK, Republic of 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.

Christmas pudding is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Christmas pudding is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas pudding using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas pudding:
  1. Take 500 g Waitrose brandy-soaked mixed fruits-make your own overnight
  2. Make ready 80 ml brandy
  3. Take 100 g plain flour
  4. Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
  5. Make ready 125 g fresh breadcrumbs (you can use white bread)
  6. Make ready 175 g dark brown sugar
  7. Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  8. Get 1/2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
  9. Take Grated zest of 1 lemon(or orange)
  10. Take 150 g shredded vegetable suet
  11. Take 1 cooking apple peeled and grated
  12. Make ready 50 g almond flakes
  13. Take 3 eggs beaten
  14. Make ready Butter or vegetable spread for greasing

Fold in the raisins, walnuts and dates. There is a simple secret to making a good Christmas pudding. Use only the best fruit and freshest nuts and spices and steam it for as long as you can bear to! It really makes a huge difference to.

Steps to make Christmas pudding:
  1. 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.
  2. Mix flour, baking powder, fresh breadcrumbs, sugar, spices, lemon zest, suet, apple and almonds in big bowl.
  3. Add fruit and remaining juices to the flour mix
  4. Beat the eggs and add to mixture. Stir to mix well.
  5. Prepare pudding basin: butter (use veg spread if preferred) a 1.2litre basin. Put disc of baking paper in the base
  6. Pour mixture in prepared basin
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. You may have to top water up every now and again as it evaporates.
  10. After steaming lift pudding from the pan and let it cool completely. Remove foil and baking parchment and cover with new sheets.
  11. Store in cool dark place for up to 6 weeks.
  12. To reheat steam for 2 hours as before until piping hot. Invert pudding into large plate to serve
  13. I like mine with brandy sauce but everyone else at home will have it with custard instead.
  14. 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.

Use only the best fruit and freshest nuts and spices and steam it for as long as you can bear to! It really makes a huge difference to. Traditional Christmas pudding is often served with something known as "hard sauce." This is a cold mixture consisting mainly of butter, sugar, cream, and vanilla, although I have seen at least one recipe incorporating egg yolk as well. The cold sauce would melt over the hot pudding to create a delectable sweet treat. In America, Christmas Pudding (also known as plum pudding or figgy pudding) is a dish as famous as it is misunderstood.

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