Christmas Pudding Recipe Traditional

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.

Christmas pudding recipe traditional. You will need two days to make it plus 6 8 weeks for maturing time so best to make it in late october early november. Cherry pecan christmas pudding. For variations try lemon or chocolate sauce. This is just like traditional christmas pudding but with less fat.

This recipe makes one large pudding in a 2 pint basin ceramic bowl. People who find traditional christmas pudding too heavy may prefer a slightly lighter version that has a less intense texture and flavour. No british christmas is complete without a christmas pudding. Add the measured brandy rum or sherry stir and leave to marinate for about one hour.

Actually a six week old pudding will be considered quite fresh. 34 recipes magazine subscription 5 issues for 5. A recipe for queen victoria s christmas pudding. This brandy pudding recipe includes pecans candied peel stem ginger and glacé cherries and is served with a beautiful butterscotch sauce.

This is quite definitely the best and like the christmas cake has been made and loved by a cast of thousands over forty years. You can also line the mold with pecan halves or cranberries before filling. 225 g candied orange lemon and cedar. Measure the sultanas raisins apricots and apple into a bowl with the orange juice.

From delia smith s christmas cookbook. 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. Be creative and add christmas decorations to the plate before serving. Traditional british christmas pudding is usually made weeks before christmas about six weeks ahead or more saving you from making it in the crazy days before the holidays.

The house smells great all day long. Delia s traditional christmas pudding recipe. 560gr of chopped beef fat. A great last minute alternative to a traditional christmas pudding plus it reheats in only five minutes 1 hr and 50 mins.

Don t forget to tick everything off as you add it so that you don t. Charles elmé francatelli was the chef of queen victoria from 1840 to 1842. If you want two smaller puddings use two 1 pint basins but give them the same steaming time.