Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, christmas pudding. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook christmas pudding using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas pudding:
- Prepare 500 g Waitrose brandy-soaked mixed fruits-make your own overnight
- Take 80 ml brandy
- Take 100 g plain flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 125 g fresh breadcrumbs (you can use white bread)
- Make ready 175 g dark brown sugar
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
- Get Grated zest of 1 lemon(or orange)
- Get 150 g shredded vegetable suet
- Make ready 1 cooking apple peeled and grated
- Take 50 g almond flakes
- Make ready 3 eggs beaten
- Make ready Butter or vegetable spread for greasing
It has been an important part of the Christmas celebrations for centuries. A flaming pudding is the grand finale to Christmas dinner, so. Christmas puddings as we now serve them are another 'tradition' invented by the Victorians. In medieval England puddings were popular and eaten all year round and not just at Christmas time.
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.
Christmas puddings as we now serve them are another 'tradition' invented by the Victorians. In medieval England puddings were popular and eaten all year round and not just at Christmas time. What would we do at Christmas without Christmas pudding? For all the fans out there, this is a recipe to die for. Rich, moist, full of flavour and colour and simply scrumptious.
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