Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, christmas pudding. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas pudding is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Christmas pudding is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Serve up some traditional puddings this Christmas. Directions The day before you want to steam the pudding: In a large bowl, thoroughly mix the suet, brown sugar, sifted flour, breadcrumbs, allspice, clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon. 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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas pudding using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas pudding:
- Get 500 g Waitrose brandy-soaked mixed fruits-make your own overnight
- Prepare 80 ml brandy
- Take 100 g plain flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 125 g fresh breadcrumbs (you can use white bread)
- Prepare 175 g dark brown sugar
- Get 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
- Take Grated zest of 1 lemon(or orange)
- Take 150 g shredded vegetable suet
- Take 1 cooking apple peeled and grated
- Make ready 50 g almond flakes
- Make ready 3 eggs beaten
- 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. 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.
Instructions to make Christmas pudding:
- 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.
- Mix flour, baking powder, fresh breadcrumbs, sugar, spices, lemon zest, suet, apple and almonds in big bowl.
- Add fruit and remaining juices to the flour mix
- Beat the eggs and add to mixture. Stir to mix well.
- Prepare pudding basin: butter (use veg spread if preferred) a 1.2litre basin. Put disc of baking paper in the base
- Pour mixture in prepared basin
- 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
- 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.
- You may have to top water up every now and again as it evaporates.
- After steaming lift pudding from the pan and let it cool completely. Remove foil and baking parchment and cover with new sheets.
- Store in cool dark place for up to 6 weeks.
- To reheat steam for 2 hours as before until piping hot. Invert pudding into large plate to serve
- I like mine with brandy sauce but everyone else at home will have it with custard instead.
- 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.
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. 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.
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