Christmas Pudding Recipe Cooked In Cloth

Beat the butter and brown and white sugar in an electric mixer until light and creamy.

Christmas pudding recipe cooked in cloth. Place the butter mixture in a large bowl along with the. 4oz each suet and butter. A recipe for queen victoria s christmas pudding. Lay the cloth on a flat surface and rub butter all over the cloth where the pudding mix will sit then sift plain flour over the top of the butter.

Place the sultanas currants raisins dates peel and brandy in a large bowl and allow to soak for at least 4 hours or overnight. Charles elmé francatelli was the chef of queen victoria from 1840 to 1842. 560gr of chopped beef fat. Spread the calico cloth on the table or bench and rub well with flour 40cm area only.

When you wrap the pudding just before cooking it make sure the fruit mixture is completely covered with floured cloth. Have string and extra flour ready. This prevents the pudding from sticking to the cloth and also gives the outer shell of the pudding a coating which helps to prevent water seeping in. This is the francatelli plum pudding by the modern cook 1846.

The flour when cooked forms a skin on the pudding helping it to keep for a long time. On the day of serving the pudding suspend the pudding in a pot of simmering water and cook for 1 5 2 hours. 225 g candied orange lemon and cedar. Spread hot cloth on bench rub extra flour onto cloth 40cm 16 inches in diameter leaving flour a little thicker in centre.

8 oz brown sugar. Pudding cloth buy half a metre of unbleached calico 122cm wide. Pound brown sugar. Prior to cooking the pudding you flour the wet cloth well before you add the mixture and tie it up.

In this case let the pudding become cold then use a cold dry unfloured cloth tie in position around pudding as instructed above. How to cook traditional boiled christmas pudding on the day. Unwrap from the cloth and if desired add a generous splash of brandy over the top and light carefully with a match. Soak cloth overnight in cold water while making pudding boil cloth in boiling water for 30 minutes.

Fill a large boiler three quarters full of hot water cover. For those who want a real traditional christmas pudding i m also including my grandmother s original recipe which i still have on a page torn out of a women s magazine many many years ago. 1 pounds mixed dried fruit. Squeeze excess water from cloth.

This is also the best method if a new cloth is to be used to give the pudding away as a gift. Christmas pudding ingredients. Wearing thick rubber gloves drop pudding cloth in boiling water. Twist the cloth firmly at the top and tie it with twine as close to the pudding mixture as possible.

Christmas pudding in a cloth recipe. Hanging the pudding from stir up sunday to christmas day when it is boiled again prior to serving ensures that. Bring to the boil. The flour also forms a unique skin or crust around the pudding that helps leftovers to continue to mature and taste better with age.

So i ve decided to share the recipe.