Christmas Pudding Making Day

On christmas day boil or oven steam for 1 hr.

Christmas pudding making day. Recipe from good food vegetarian christmas december 2006. I m not sure quite how i ll use up three. Christmas pudding is an absolu. On christmas day reheat the pudding by steaming again for about an hour.

Traditional british christmas pudding is usually made weeks before christmas about six weeks ahead or more saving you from making it in the crazy days before the holidays. But the others can t do christmas without it. To flame warm 3 4 tbsp brandy in a small pan pour it over the pudding and set light to it. Serve with brandy sauce brandy butter or custard.

Traditionally puddings are made on stir up sunday which is the sunday before the start of advent and this year it is on 22nd november 2015. Nigella s ultimate christmas pudding from christmas and on the nigella website can be made up to 6 weeks ahead of christmas. But finally i have 3 puddings all waiting for christmas day. Flaming the pudding is another tradition believed to represent the passion of christ and again is an essential part of the theater of christmas day.

Actually a six week old pudding will be considered quite fresh. Unwrap and turn out. I m sure we ll manage three somehow. Nigel only makes 2 but i had smaller pudding basins and am conscious that some of the family don t actually like christmas pudding.

Leftover christmas pudding can be refrigerated or frozen well wrapped and then reheated by wrapping tightly in aluminum foil and heating through in a hot oven.