Christmas Pudding Day

Serve with brandy sauce brandy butter or custard.

Christmas pudding day. For variations try lemon or chocolate sauce. Microwave or re steam to reheat. You can also line the mold with pecan halves or cranberries before filling. Cover with two layers of greased wax paper.

Flaming the pudding is another tradition believed to represent the passion of christ and again is an essential part of the theater of christmas day. Many people have taken up baking this year thanks to lockdown so if you. Steam for two hours. Place the pudding in a steamer set over a saucepan filled with simmering water.

Store in a cool dry place until christmas day. Today is stir up sunday which means it s a good time to make your christmas pudding and let it mature before the big day. Remove the pudding from the steamer and allow it to cool completely in the mold. This is just like traditional christmas pudding but with less fat.

It s wonderful served with rum or cranberry sauce. It s the day when wishes are said to come true so get stirring. Eating christmas pudding was banned by oliver cromwell in the 17th century because he believed the ritual of flaming the pudding harked back to pagan celebrations of the winter solstice. Leftover christmas pudding can be refrigerated or frozen well wrapped and then reheated by wrapping tightly in aluminum foil and heating through in a hot oven.

It has its origins in medieval england and is sometimes known as plum pudding or just pud 1 2 though this can also refer to other kinds of boiled pudding involving dried fruit. On christmas day reheat the pudding by steaming again for about an hour. Be creative and add christmas decorations to the plate before serving.