Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, christmas plum pudding. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas Plum Pudding is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Christmas Plum Pudding is something that I have loved my whole life.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas plum pudding using 17 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Plum Pudding:
- Take 1 cup ground suet
- Take 3/4 cup peeled minced apples
- Take 3/4 cup fine bread crumbs
- Make ready 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1/4 tsp mace
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp allspice
- Get 1 tsp cinnamon
- Take 1 tsp fresh grated nutmeg
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Get 1/4 cup chopped red candied cherries
- Prepare 1/4 cup chopped candied green cherries
- Take 1 cup raisins
- Prepare 1 cup currants
- Make ready 1 cup brown suger
- Make ready 1/4 cup brandy
- Prepare 1/4 cup rum
- Get 4 each beaten eggs
A pudding is "steamed" so it's cooked on the stove, not in the oven. How to: Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the lightly beaten eggs and mix well. Stir in the sieved flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and mixed spice.
Instructions to make Christmas Plum Pudding:
- Mix all ingredients except eggs, brandy and rum until well blended, use hands if necessary
- Stir in eggs, brandy and rum
- Lightly grease pudding mold. Depending on your size choice use more than one.
- Fill mold to within 1/2 inch of top
- Cover tops with a piece of grease tin foil and clean cloth on top of that
- Tie coverings with string tightly and leave string for removal from pot later
- Place on rack in large enough pot to hold molds. Fill with boiling water until water level is 2/3 up side on mold
- Boil gently for 3 - 3 1/2 hours. Add water if needed.
- Turn off heat, let water cool until you can safely remove using string of mold
- Cool completely, loosen and remove from molds. Wrap in cheesecloth. Moisten cheesecloth with rum or brandy and wrap tightly in tin foil.
- Store in cool place til Christmas. Check every few days to ensure cheesecloth stays moist not wet. Reseal foil ater each check.
- To serve, reheat unmolded pudding either by steaming in original mold or wrapping in tin foil and heating in oven at approximately 325°F. If steaming ensure to cover the mold tightly avoiding moisture getting in pudding.
- Once heated invert on serving platter. If desired flambe with brandy. Serve with whipped cream or sauce of your choice. We prefer rum butter sauce.
- Spice measurements may be modified to your taste.
- Raisons and currants can be soaked for up to an hour in rum or brandy for more flavor.
Add the lightly beaten eggs and mix well. Stir in the sieved flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and mixed spice. There's a plenty of great supermarket Christmas puddings. In America, Christmas Pudding (also known as plum pudding or figgy pudding) is a dish as famous as it is misunderstood. It's the flaming center of the climactic meal of Charles Dickens' "A.
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