Christmas Pudding Recipe The Guardian

Combine the mixed fruit prunes muscovado sugar rum and stout in a mixing bowl.

Christmas pudding recipe the guardian. You will need greaseproof paper foil and string. A lighter christmas pudding. Soak the sultanas raisins currants figs peel apricots and cherries in the brandy overnight giving it a. 6 00 pm christmas tolerance.

Stir well to mix cover and leave for 24 hours to soak. There are also crisp shortbread stars a christmas pudding perfect mince pies mont blanc tarts a luxurious meringue cake even anja dunk s gingerbread house. Christmas puddings are as much about texture as flavour they should be unapologetically dense without being solid. Mary berry makes hers with a standard cake base creaming together butter.

Patricia niven the observer w hen i moved to london in july 2005 i had never eaten a proper christmas pudding much less made one. This is a lighter version of christmas pudding with a golden crumb the fresh zing of zest and the brightness of ginger. Plus substituted kraken spiced dark rum for the sherry but was definitely the best ever christmas pudding for the first time the whole pudding was gone at the end of lunch even the teenagers ate it. Top recipes for a family tea or a.

This recipe even includes the all important stir in a christmas wish step that many recipes forget but as we all know that step makes a christmas pudding much more authentic. There are no special ingredients besides the christmas wish so you should be able to find everything in your local supermarket. For this recipe you will need two 1 5 litre 2 pint plastic pudding basins with lids. Mince pies christmas pudding custard just because you ve got dietary restrictions doesn t mean you can t enjoy them published.

I did substitute figs for the prunes and equal cranberry and cherries for the sultanas.