Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, christmas pudding. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas pudding using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas pudding:
- Prepare 500 g Waitrose brandy-soaked mixed fruits-make your own overnight
- Take 80 ml brandy
- Get 100 g plain flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 125 g fresh breadcrumbs (you can use white bread)
- Make ready 175 g dark brown sugar
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
- Make ready Grated zest of 1 lemon(or orange)
- Get 150 g shredded vegetable suet
- Prepare 1 cooking apple peeled and grated
- Get 50 g almond flakes
- Take 3 eggs beaten
- Prepare Butter or vegetable spread for greasing
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Instructions to make Christmas pudding:
- Soak fruits overnight in brandy if using your own mix. I soaked them in 80 ml of brandy just as I start getting mix ready for extra alcohol.
- Mix flour, baking powder, fresh breadcrumbs, sugar, spices, lemon zest, suet, apple and almonds in big bowl.
- Add fruit and remaining juices to the flour mix
- Beat the eggs and add to mixture. Stir to mix well.
- Prepare pudding basin: butter (use veg spread if preferred) a 1.2litre basin. Put disc of baking paper in the base
- Pour mixture in prepared basin
- Cover with a double sheet of baking paper and add two layers of foil on top. Tie all the layers with a secure knot and arrange handle to be able to lift pudding
- Place pudding in a large pan(I use my maslin pan which I use for preserves) and fill halfway with water. Cover with a lid and steam for 6 hours.
- You may have to top water up every now and again as it evaporates.
- After steaming lift pudding from the pan and let it cool completely. Remove foil and baking parchment and cover with new sheets.
- Store in cool dark place for up to 6 weeks.
- To reheat steam for 2 hours as before until piping hot. Invert pudding into large plate to serve
- I like mine with brandy sauce but everyone else at home will have it with custard instead.
- To flame the pudding warm 100ml of brandy in a small saucepan but do not let it boil. Pour over the pudding and quickly ignite keeping at arms length.
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