Easiest Way to Prepare Homemade Christmas pudding

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, christmas pudding. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Christmas pudding is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Christmas pudding is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Serve up some traditional puddings this Christmas. Christmas pudding is generally made from a combination of dried fruit, candied fruit peel, and citrus zests in a dense, sticky sponge cake. It can be flavored with cinnamon, brandy, rum, or other spices for moisture and taste. When Do You Serve Christmas Pudding?

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook christmas pudding using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas pudding:

1. Take 500 g Waitrose brandy-soaked mixed fruits-make your own overnight
2. Prepare 80 ml brandy
3. Get 100 g plain flour
4. Take 1 tsp baking powder
5. Prepare 125 g fresh breadcrumbs (you can use white bread)
6. Prepare 175 g dark brown sugar
7. Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
9. Make ready Grated zest of 1 lemon(or orange)
10. Make ready 150 g shredded vegetable suet
11. Make ready 1 cooking apple peeled and grated
12. Prepare 50 g almond flakes
13. Take 3 eggs beaten
14. Make ready Butter or vegetable spread for greasing

Christmas pudding is a type of pudding traditionally served as part of the Christmas dinner in the UK, Republic of Ireland and in other countries where it has been brought by British and Irish immigrants. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, baking powder and cinnamon; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Fold in the raisins, walnuts and dates.

Instructions to make Christmas pudding:

1. Soak fruits overnight in brandy if using your own mix. I soaked them in 80 ml of brandy just as I start getting mix ready for extra alcohol.
2. Mix flour, baking powder, fresh breadcrumbs, sugar, spices, lemon zest, suet, apple and almonds in big bowl.
3. Add fruit and remaining juices to the flour mix
4. Beat the eggs and add to mixture. Stir to mix well.
5. Prepare pudding basin: butter (use veg spread if preferred) a 1.2litre basin. Put disc of baking paper in the base
6. Pour mixture in prepared basin
7. Cover with a double sheet of baking paper and add two layers of foil on top. Tie all the layers with a secure knot and arrange handle to be able to lift pudding
8. Place pudding in a large pan(I use my maslin pan which I use for preserves) and fill halfway with water. Cover with a lid and steam for 6 hours.
9. You may have to top water up every now and again as it evaporates.
10. After steaming lift pudding from the pan and let it cool completely. Remove foil and baking parchment and cover with new sheets.
11. Store in cool dark place for up to 6 weeks.
12. To reheat steam for 2 hours as before until piping hot. Invert pudding into large plate to serve
13. I like mine with brandy sauce but everyone else at home will have it with custard instead.
14. To flame the pudding warm 100ml of brandy in a small saucepan but do not let it boil. Pour over the pudding and quickly ignite keeping at arms length.

Combine the flour, baking powder and cinnamon; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Fold in the raisins, walnuts and dates. 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. Brandy and spices provide a deep, complex flavor and signature dark color. Christmas pudding is best made well in advance to allow it to mature.

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