Christmas Pudding Using Suet

We use atora shredded beef suet but you can use fresh suet from the butcher if you like or vegetarian suet.

Christmas pudding using suet. This is a rich pudding created by steaming suet molasses soured milk baking soda flour and raisins. The christmas pudding we recognise today is a victorian dish made from suet dried fruit candied peel breadcrumbs spices egg and grated carrots and apples. A suet pudding is a boiled steamed or microwaved pudding made with suet beef or mutton fat flour bread crumbs raisins and spices. I am very nervous serving this pudding on xmas day because of the suet issue and i did follow the recipe exactly never have i used suet before in a pudding and i bought to fresh from my butcher am frighted it might taste fatty.

Packaged shredded suet runs out into the pan during cooking too. Brandy and spices provide a deep complex flavor and signature dark color. 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. Tips for making old fashioned christmas pudding.

Cratchit entered flushed but smiling proudly with the pudding like a speckled cannon ball so hard and firm blazing in half of half a quarter of ignited brandy and bedight with christmas holly stuck into the top charles dickens 1843 a christmas carol. Per serving calories 309kcals fat 10 6g 1 2g saturated protein 6 8g carbohydrates 42 5g 37 9g sugars fibre 3 9g salt 0 3g. Many variations are strongly associated with british cuisine. That was the pudding.

Set pudding on a cooling rack uncover and let cool 10 minutes. In half a minute mrs. Suet is shredded animal fat but there are also vegetarian versions available. Suet isn t widely available outside the uk but i have heard that you can use grated frozen butter or shortening instead.

It s served warm with a sauce of confectioners sugar an egg white and vanilla extract. There are some ingredients in christmas pudding which may be unfamiliar. If serving now unmould pudding onto a serving plate and enjoy. Pudding is ready when it is puffed and springs back when gently touched.

For the ultimate christmas pudding will the grated suet disperse on the final 3 hour cooking process as it is now there is specks of suet through the pudding. I let it cool strain it and discard it in the bin but it keeps the pudding moist during the long cooking and i think of the discarded fat as a few saved calories. Recipes vary greatly and can be desserts or savoury courses.