Christmas Pudding Delia

You will need a 1 4 litre 2 pint pudding.

Christmas pudding delia. Stir well to mix cover and leave for 24 hours to soak. Combine the mixed fruit prunes muscovado sugar rum and stout in a mixing bowl. A 1 2 litre pudding basin lightly greased baking parchment foil and string and a traditional or fan type steamer. 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.

Don t forget to tick everything off as you add it so that you don t. Loaded with big pieces of fruit mary berry s christmas pudding recipe with brandy butter will win over the harshest critics. What has come as a shock after all this time is that apart from being the best christmas pudding in the world it s only 78p a portion and that includes the sauce. Although i stipulate a capacious 1 7 litre 3 pint 1 quart basin and cannot extol the utter gloriousness of this pud too much i know that you re unlikely to get through most of it even half of it at one sitting.

From delia smith s christmas cookbook. Take your largest roomiest mixing bowl and start by putting in the suet and breadcrumbs spices and sugar. I microwave a one pint pudding for thirteen and a half minutes on high. Christmas is the time when indulgence is pretty much compulsory so try some of these christmas puddings as part of your festive menu from the traditional ultimate christmas pudding and anglo italian trifle to an easy and delicious chocolate raspberry pav.

Cooking the pudding in our small microwave instead is simple and i use delia smith s traditional christmas pudding recipe. If you want two smaller puddings use two 1 pint basins but give them the same steaming time. Factory versions of christmas pudding are a million miles from a home made version. Delia s classic christmas pudding with brandy sauce this one s always been a winner in my 40 years of cookery writing.

The glorious combination of vine fruits nuts and citrus peels laced with ale and rum slowly steamed into a fragrant mass of intense flavours is second to none. 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. Begin the day before you want to steam the pudding. It s true to say that the pudding will not be as dark as a pudding cooked in the traditional way but if like me you can t spare the gas it s an extremely good alternative.

This recipe makes one large pudding in a 2 pint basin ceramic bowl. Thaw overnight at room temperature and proceed as recipe on christmas day. If that doesn t take your fancy we also have a collection of alternative festive puddings for all tastes.