Christmas Pudding Recipe Stout

In a separate bowl combine the eggs brandy and stout and mix well.

Christmas pudding recipe stout. Makes 2 puddings each 1 2 litre in size. Put a 35 5cm 14in square of foil on top of a square of baking parchment of the same size. Cover pudding with greaseproof paper and secure with string or tinfoil. Delia s traditional christmas pudding recipe.

Brandy and spices provide a deep complex flavor and signature dark color. Lightly butter a 1 litre 1 pint pudding basin and line the base with a disc of baking parchment. Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and stir. Stir well to mix cover and leave for 24 hours to soak.

2 tsp ground cinnamon 2 tsp mixed spice or ground nutmeg. 350g fresh white breadcrumbs from bread not more than two days old. Transfer to a 1 litre 3 pint greased pudding bowl. In a mixing bowl combine the suet flour breadcrumbs sugar fruit and spices and mix well.

Once drained place all the fruit ingredients for the christmas pudding from the first group of ingredients into a non metallic mixing bowl. Combine the mixed fruit prunes muscovado sugar rum and stout in a mixing bowl. The next day grease a 1l pudding basin and add the pudding mixture. 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. Cover and leave overnight in a cool place. 100g plain or self raising flour. Stir well cover and leave to stand overnight.

You will need a 1 4 litre. 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. Loaded with big pieces of fruit mary berry s christmas pudding recipe with brandy butter will win over the harshest critics. Cover the bowl with a plate and leave in the fridge overnight.

Finally add the breadcrumbs and stout. And finally add the stout guinness and mix well. This is quite definitely the best and like the christmas cake has been made and loved by a cast of thousands over forty years. Cover and steam for 5 hours or longer.

Mix the dried fruit and apple then add the guinness orange and lemon zests and stir. Cover and leave overnight to soak.