100 Year Old Christmas Pudding Recipe

Historically your christmas pudding would include 12 ingredients with each member of the family taking a turn to mix and making a wish as they do.

100 year old christmas pudding recipe. This is an old fashioned pudding that s a cranberry lover s delight. Let me know if you would like to see the recipe i have. 100 year old christmas pudding recipe. Jan 15 2020 explore donald ferguson s board christmas pudding followed by 1222 people on pinterest.

There are several types of christmas puddings. My grandparents married in 1910 so my grandmother would have copied the recipes out in or before that year. Another feature of a traditional christmas pudding is the addition of a sixpence with whoever ends up with the piece of pudding it was dished up into receiving luck for the next year. Thank you for sharing.

The recipe is quite different from yours. Figgy puddings are another christmas treat made popular as one of the verses of we wish you a merry christmas. The lack of flour in this makes a lighter crumb and there is no bitter after taste that you get in some commercially. Rich plum puddings are full of dried fruit but oddly enough never plums as in old english many dried fruits went by the name of plum.

I changed some of the ingredients to suit our personal taste and cut the quantities back considerably the original recipe made about 8 puddings. This recipe was copied from my grandmothers hand written recipe book that she made using the recipes that her mother used. The puddings are then distilled along with an aromatic basket of botanicals including juniper cinnamon and star anise and aged in 100 year old muscat barrels for a year. Serve warm topped with whipped cream for an elegant look or in bowls with rich cream poured over for a homey touch.

Lucy meyring walden colorado. I have a 250 year old christmas pudding recipe i ve been using for 20 years to make around 25 12oz puddings as gifts each year. Plus the same recipe adapted for todays modern cook. I make no apologies for sharing my traditional victorian christmas pudding recipe again this year as it is a very fine pudding indeed as it s a wonderfully rich and fruity pud and is still light enough for those who dislike the heavy canon ball style puddings.