Cooking A Christmas Pudding

For example unless your recipe says otherwise a large 3 pound christmas pudding requires 7 cups of water while a small 6 ounce pudding takes about 3 cups.

Cooking a christmas pudding. Get everything for the pudding prepared. Once the christmas pudding is cooked cool and cover with fresh parchment and foil before storing in a cool dry place. 250 grams raisins 250 grams currants 185 grams sultanas 150 grams mixed peel 250 grams suet or vegetarian suet 250 grams breadcrumbs. The pudding cannot be eaten immediately.

Peel core and chop the cooking apples. Allrecipes has more than 20 recipes for christmas puddings like figgy pudding or date plum carrot and toffee puddings. Then lower the pudding bowl over the rack or into the basket. Put the currants golden raisins and scissored pitted prunes into a bowl with the pedro ximénez swill the bowl a bit then cover with clingfilm and leave to steep overnight or for up to 1 week.

On christmas day reheat the pudding by steaming again for about an hour. Sharpen your knife and chop the candied peel. You will need a 1 7 litre 3 pint 1 quart heatproof plastic pudding basin with a lid and also a sprig of holly to decorate. Serve up some traditional puddings this christmas.

There is a simple secret to making a good christmas pudding. Nana and my mother in law would both make the same recipe the one i m sharing with you today and we were all given some of each in a blind taste test. Our guide is for a medium pudding 1 2l 2pt and also contains instructions for cooking and re heating mini puddings. It does need to be stored in a cool dry place and rested then reheated on christmas day.

The christmas pudding contest. Eating the pudding immediately after cooking will cause it to collapse and the flavors will not have had time to mature. Reheat in the same way as you steamed your pudding for 1 2 hours when to cook. When nana and my mother in law were alive every year there was a christmas pudding contest initiated by my late father in law.

Chop the almonds coarsely. Use only the best fruit and freshest nuts and spices and steam it for as long as you can bear to. Step 4 place a steamer basket or rack into the pressure cooker.