christmas pudding recipes?

zippychick

Hi Happyidiottalk

I've merged this with our christmas pudding thread - how did you get on?

there is an Old style prep thread for christmas 2010



Here's a load of links from the index i created in that thread which may also help

HM alcohol free christmas pud

Christmas pudding in slow cooker - is it possible?

Recipe for christmas cake

Iced marzipan - my first cake

when is the right time to make a christmas cake

Shortbread recipe

How do you use brandy butter?

Trifle

HM custard

What can i do with custard

Baileys cheesecake

Zip

Zziggi

Does anyone have a favourite Christmas pudding recipe they'd mind sharing with me.

This'll be the first year I've made one *gulp*

Thanks in advance

Pink.

Hi Zziggi

This thread should help:

christmas pudding recipes?

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the recipe suggestions together.

Pink

meritaten

I dont make one - I find by the time Ive bought ALL the ingredients (which I dont have in store) its far cheaper to buy one! Honestly! unless you intend to make at least six - its cheaper to buy a ready made one. may not be Old Style - but its Moneysaving!

and its only my DS2 who actually LIKES christmas pud - the others prefer something lighter.

seraphina

St Delia's recipe is the one for me - and you can get it free on her website. I tried Nigella's pud one year but it wasn't great.

blondy24

I am making the delia one today, it is steaming as I type..... fingers crossed as my first year making an xmas pud too.

squeaky

For anybody wanting to provide a nice similar sort of - rich tasting but nothing like as heavy - I can highly recommend this alternative:-

Chocolate Beetroot Cake recipe

I do it in a pudding basin and cook it in the microwave. Timing depends on your power, so after 5mins on high - do the "is anything stuck to my stabber?" test, and now keep checking every thirty seconds.

On my 850W microwave it tended to take between 8 and 8½ minutes.

Well_Preserved

Delia for me too, and I cook I in the slow cooker.

Zziggi

Thanks everybody. I'm going to try st. Delia's recipe. The recipe includes 150ml of barley wine - what is that?

Also I'd prefer to "steam" them in my slow cooker can anyone tell me how long I should leave the (1pint) puddings in the slow cooker & should I cook them on high?

Thanks in advance

meritaten

barley wine is normally found with the speciality beers and ales. I dont think its a wine as such, its more of a beer. Also known to cause the worst hangover you will ever have!