Christmas Pudding Recipe How Long In Advance

2 oz 1 4 c good quality butter.

Christmas pudding recipe how long in advance. Slightly adapted from a country christmas lorenz books serves 8. Make early to allow the festive flavours to mingle keep in the fridge for three days or in the freezer for two to three weeks. Delia s traditional christmas pudding recipe. Traditionally the dessert is made on stir it up sunday the sunday before advent around the end of november where families gather to stir the mixture make a wish and add a few coins to the batter.

Although i stipulate a capacious 1 7 litre 3 pint 1 quart basin and cannot extol the utter gloriousness of this pud too much i know that you re unlikely to get through most of it even. Make and freeze the christmas pudding for up to 1 year ahead. Thaw overnight at room temperature and proceed as recipe on christmas day. Nigella s ultimate christmas pudding from christmas and on the nigella website can be made up to 6 weeks ahead of christmas.

Christmas pudding is best made well in advance to allow it to mature. 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. Christmas pudding doesn t need as long to mature as the cake although it needs to be done early as well. Any pudding using fresh fruit for moisture will go off quicker whereas a christmas pudding soaked in booze with a high sugar and dried fruit content will last much longer.

Combine the mixed fruit prunes muscovado sugar rum and stout in a mixing bowl. 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. A 5 cup pudding basin mold like this one. Loaded with big pieces of fruit mary berry s christmas pudding recipe with brandy butter will win over the harshest critics.

The two use similar ingredients but the pudding also contains suet. Stir well to mix cover and leave for 24 hours to soak. Butterscotch christmas pudding finish your feast the traditional way with a fruit filled steamed pud topped with butterscotch sauce and mixed nuts. This is quite definitely the best and like the christmas cake has been made and loved by a cast of thousands over forty years.