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Christmas pudding is a type of pudding traditionally served as part of the Christmas dinner in the UK, Ireland and in other countries where it has been brought by British and Irish immigrants. Plum pudding is the traditional culmination of the Christmas feast (it's sometimes called Christmas pudding). This dense, fruit-filled Victorian pudding remains a fixture of British Christmas.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have christmas plum pudding using 17 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Plum Pudding:
- Get 1 cup ground suet
- Make ready 3/4 cup peeled minced apples
- Get 3/4 cup fine bread crumbs
- Prepare 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1/4 tsp mace
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp allspice
- Take 1 tsp cinnamon
- Get 1 tsp fresh grated nutmeg
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Get 1/4 cup chopped red candied cherries
- Get 1/4 cup chopped candied green cherries
- Get 1 cup raisins
- Get 1 cup currants
- Prepare 1 cup brown suger
- Prepare 1/4 cup brandy
- Prepare 1/4 cup rum
- Get 4 each beaten eggs
A Christmas plum pudding (also called figgy pudding) is divine—dark, moist, rich, and fruity. I make mine in October, and give many away as gifts. Plum pudding is the essence of Christmas in Ireland and no one can ever make it like one's own dear mother, but here's a recipe that's a little bit Clare and a little bit Donegal, with some Dublin thrown in. Christmas Plum Pudding is usually served with brandy or rum butter.
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.
Learn how to make/prepare Christmas Plum Pudding by following this easy recipe. Here in Ireland, plum pudding and cake for dessert after the Christmas dinner is a tradition. Both desserts can be made well in advance of the holidays, which is an added bonus during those hectic. Festive Christmas food, plum pudding decorated chocolates. Summertime Christmas Ice Cream Plum Pudding.
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