Christmas Pudding Using Suet

Cratchit entered flushed but smiling proudly with the pudding like a speckled cannon ball so hard and firm blazing in half of half a quarter of ignited brandy and bedight with christmas holly stuck into the top charles dickens 1843 a christmas carol.

Christmas pudding using suet. Pudding is ready when it is puffed and springs back when gently touched. Brandy and spices provide a deep complex flavor and signature dark color. I m a happy bunny today although i have my own christmas pudding recipe i have such fond memories of this recipe which my grandmother used. If serving now unmould pudding onto a serving plate and enjoy.

Last minute christmas pudding. No british christmas is complete without a christmas pudding. To flame the pudding heat a ladleful of brandy then light with a match and carefully pour it over the pudding. Per serving calories 403kcal fat 14 3g 6 8g saturated protein 5 4g carbohydrates 64 3g 44 6 sugar salt 0 5.

That was the pudding. Set pudding on a cooling rack uncover and let cool 10 minutes. At first we used a 1 to 1 ratio which worked. My family has used atora vegetarian suet to replace beef suet in our homemade christmas puddings.

We have a vegetarian in the family who loves christmas pudding so we can t use normal animal fat suet. To reheat the pudding on the day return it to the mould or steam in its muslin for 2 hours until piping hot throughout. Serve with the calvados cream. Heat batter in a steamer over 1 inch of hot but not boiling water.

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. In a large bowl combine suet raisins corn syrup water baking soda 1 teaspoon salt nutmeg cinnamon cloves flour and baking powder. She gave it to me cut out from the side of an atora suet box and it was tucked into my recipe book for years but somewhere along the way it s slipped out and got lost. For the ultimate christmas pudding will the grated suet disperse on the final 3 hour cooking process as it is now there is specks of suet through the pudding.

I am very nervous serving this pudding on xmas day because of the suet issue and i did follow the recipe exactly never have i used suet before in a pudding and i bought to fresh from my butcher am frighted it might taste fatty. The christmas pudding we recognise today is a victorian dish made from suet dried fruit candied peel breadcrumbs spices egg and grated carrots and apples.