Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, christmas plum pudding. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This is a fairly basic British Christmas plum pudding recipe but unlike other recipes it can actually have plums in it. Unfortunately the ingredient list is so long, it isn't easy to make it in less than industrial quantities! You can substitute a mixture of fresh and dried apricots, peaches, etc. for the plums and milk for the ale if you wish.
Christmas Plum Pudding is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Christmas Plum Pudding is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas plum pudding using 17 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Plum Pudding:
- Get 1 cup ground suet
- Make ready 3/4 cup peeled minced apples
- Take 3/4 cup fine bread crumbs
- Take 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- Take 1/4 tsp mace
- Take 1/2 tbsp allspice
- Take 1 tsp cinnamon
- Prepare 1 tsp fresh grated nutmeg
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Take 1/4 cup chopped red candied cherries
- Get 1/4 cup chopped candied green cherries
- Get 1 cup raisins
- Make ready 1 cup currants
- Prepare 1 cup brown suger
- Get 1/4 cup brandy
- Take 1/4 cup rum
- Take 4 each beaten eggs
Plum pudding is the essence of Christmas in Ireland and no one can ever make it like one's own dear. I grew up eating plum pudding at Christmas. We used to scour three states to buy the canned stuff before it got sold out. Then I was given this recipe by a friend, and commercial plum pudding has not crossed my lips again.
Instructions to make Christmas Plum Pudding:
- Mix all ingredients except eggs, brandy and rum until well blended, use hands if necessary
- Stir in eggs, brandy and rum
- Lightly grease pudding mold. Depending on your size choice use more than one.
- Fill mold to within 1/2 inch of top
- Cover tops with a piece of grease tin foil and clean cloth on top of that
- Tie coverings with string tightly and leave string for removal from pot later
- Place on rack in large enough pot to hold molds. Fill with boiling water until water level is 2/3 up side on mold
- Boil gently for 3 - 3 1/2 hours. Add water if needed.
- Turn off heat, let water cool until you can safely remove using string of mold
- Cool completely, loosen and remove from molds. Wrap in cheesecloth. Moisten cheesecloth with rum or brandy and wrap tightly in tin foil.
- Store in cool place til Christmas. Check every few days to ensure cheesecloth stays moist not wet. Reseal foil ater each check.
- To serve, reheat unmolded pudding either by steaming in original mold or wrapping in tin foil and heating in oven at approximately 325°F. If steaming ensure to cover the mold tightly avoiding moisture getting in pudding.
- Once heated invert on serving platter. If desired flambe with brandy. Serve with whipped cream or sauce of your choice. We prefer rum butter sauce.
- Spice measurements may be modified to your taste.
- Raisons and currants can be soaked for up to an hour in rum or brandy for more flavor.
It is well worth the time it takes to gather the ingredients and make the pudding. Unfortunately the ingredient list is so long, it isn't easy to make it in less than industrial quantities! Making the plum pudding using your recipe today; bought a Mrs Anderson's pudding mold ( used to use a coffee can as my Welsh mum did). Added egg yolks to wet mixture; beat egg yolks until they were stiff and folded in just before placing in mold ( what my mum did). No British Christmas is complete without a Christmas pudding.
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