Christmas Pudding Recipe English

Slightly adapted from a country christmas lorenz books serves 8.

Christmas pudding recipe english. Recipe from good food vegetarian christmas december 2006. It s given real vibrancy and zing with a fresh cranberry topping sweetened with maple syrup. A 5 cup pudding basin mold like this one. Let me know if you make a christmas pudding as i d love to know what you think.

This may seem a lot of work but boy is it worth it. To flame warm 3 4 tbsp brandy in a small pan pour it over the pudding and set light to it. Remove and store covered until ready to serve. Delia s traditional christmas pudding recipe.

Make and cook the pudding 6 8 weeks before christmas. It s traditional to serve the pudding alight but it should be done with great care. Steam the pudding gently for 6 hours topping the water up occasionally. This is quite definitely the best and like the christmas cake has been made and loved by a cast of thousands over forty years.

Bake in a hot water bath in an oven preheated to 150 c approximately 300 f for about 2 hours 3 hours if using a large pan. Right guys it s coming up to stir up sunday and for all you millenials that have no idea what that is then watch this video. Christmas pudding is an absolu. The finished result is traditionally spicy and fruity but less rich than standard christmas puddings.

Cover when cold and keep until required. Christmas pudding is pure tradition and worth doing from scratch if only once for first time pudding makers this is foolproof. Remove the pudding from the pan and allow to cool. 2 oz 1 4 c good quality butter.

If you ve never made a christmas pudding please don t be put off by the eight hours steaming it isn t any work it just sits happily on its own getting the long slow cooking which is what gives it. On christmas day steam the pudding for another 2 hours before serving. No british christmas is complete without a christmas pudding. Unlike american puddings a christmas pudding is a dark sticky and dense sponge more like a fruitcake made of mixed dried fruit candied fruit peel apple and citrus zests.

Our cranberry maple and pecan pudding is dairy wheat and gluten free. Christmas pudding is an absolu. Here you can find out how to make traditional english christmas pudding which unlike a common pudding or quatre. Also as it does take a fair time to steam make things easier for yourself by preparing the pudding up to the end of stage the day before.

Brandy and spices provide a deep complex flavor and signature dark color. Depending on different tastes and customs christmas sweet bread is eaten in some parts of the world whereas elsewhere they prefer to eat pudding both breads are eaten a lot at end of the year for christmas and new year and are served as dessert or eaten at breakfast or with tea.