Josceline Dimbleby Christmas Pudding Recipe

I have altered the original recipe by omitting candied peel which i don t like and substituting dates and figs.

Josceline dimbleby christmas pudding recipe. Members of ckbk have access to the full content of cooking for christmas by josceline dimbleby and hundreds of other classic and contemporary cookbooks. This recipe uses the sweetness of dried fruits in place of refined sugar so you don t have to feel guilty about wanting seconds. Pour the liquid into the pudding mixture and stir thoroughly. It s essentially the same as a christmas pudding just with the addition of delicious prunes.

Plum pudding is an old fashioned christmas dessert that makes a wonderful centrepiece come the big day. Generously butter a 2 pint 1 1 litre and a 1 pint 600 ml pudding basin chop up the glacé cherries roughly. This is a lighter christmas pud as i m not keen on the dense black ones. Cover the bowl with a cloth and leave until the next day.

Put the dried fruit walnuts orange rind breadcrumbs suet and spices in a large bowl and mix thoroughly. Christmas pudding ought to be figgy anyway i have also decreased the quantity of suet as otherwise it comes out rather greasy. Christmas lunch with josceline dimbleby. Cover with a double layer of buttered greaseproof paper and then either a cloth.

Butter two 2 pt pudding basins and spoon in the mixture. After a peripatetic childhood the author josceline dimbleby wanted nothing more than to settle down and establish a few festive traditions. Dickensian plum pudding recipe josceline dimbleby takes us through her christmas lunch menu drawing on flavours from syrian spice to her granny s rum butter.