3 Pint Christmas Pudding Recipeg

Mix together all the dry ingredients.

3 pint christmas pudding recipeg. From delia smith s christmas cookbook. This recipe makes one large pudding in a 2 pint basin ceramic bowl. Lightly grease 4x600ml 1 pint or 2x1 2 litre 2 pint pudding basins. Mix all of the ingredients together and place in a well greased 2 pint pudding bowl.

The recipe stipulates a 1 7 litre 3 pint 7 cups 1 7 quarts basin and the steaming time is initially 5 hours followed by 3 hours for the second steaming before eating usually on christmas day. The most delicious christmas pudding recipe calls for a healthy amount of guinness draught. 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. This is quite definitely the best and like the christmas cake has been made and loved by a cast of thousands over forty years.

When i make it i halve the recipe for ease and this is the recipe i ve shared below. However the pudding batter is also enough to fill two smaller basins one of 1 2 litres 2 pints 5 cups and one of 600ml 1 pint 2 1 2 cups. The longer the pudding cooks the richer and darker it becomes. 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.

Recipe from good food vegetarian christmas december 2006 comments questions and tips. The original recipe makes 4 one pint or 2 two pint puddings and called for a pound of most of the ingredients. Place pudding in a saucepan with water half way up the side. The christmas pudding is very simple to make.

Some recipes are closely guarded secrets but we ll let you in on the trick to ours. Don t forget to tick everything off as you add it so that you don t. Cover and steam for 5 hours or longer. Delia s a traditional christmas pudding recipe.

Nigella s recipe for ultimate christmas pudding from christmas and on the nigella website is for a 3 pint 1 7 litres 7 cup basin but in her book nigella mentions that the pudding can be made into a 2 pint 1 2 litres 5 cup and a 1 pint 600ml 2 1 2 cup version. A one pint pudding will easily serve 6 to 8 people perhaps more if they have eaten a lot of christmas dinner. Or you could make three 1 pint puddings. Put a circle of.

Transfer to a 1 litre 3 pint greased pudding bowl. Cover pudding with greaseproof paper and secure with string or tinfoil. Spoon the mix into basins. If you want two smaller puddings use two 1 pint basins but give them the same steaming time.