Pressure cookers for steaming puddings

shepherdgirl

Hi folks

Can I ask more silly questions please :rotfl:

What is the best way to cook steamed puddings - a steamer or pressure cooker ?

Many thanks

seraphina

I've asked how to cook puds in a PC before and cut and pasted the answer into my file of useful stuff to remember! The cooking times I got are as follows:


If normal cooking time is 30 mins, allow 5 mins pre steaming and 10 mins cooking at low pressure.

Normal time 1 hr, 15 mins pre steaming, 25 mins at L pressure.

Normal time 2 - 3 hrs, 20 mins pre steaming, 50 - 60 mins L pressure.

Because steamed puddings (as opposed to suet puds or Christmas puds) generally need to rise, you need to steam them without pressure for a little while first - just stick a lid over the PC.

The PC is great at shaving loads of time of steamed puddings - they also work quite well in microwaves. That's the main reason I use the PC, although I think that the steamer results in a slightly lighter pudding.

elf06

I use my slow cooker :rotfl:

adelight

i do it in the microwave

tanith

I do it in the microwave it takes 2/3 mins to produce a beautiful sponge pudding... any flavour or variety

Penelope_Penguin

I cook steamed puddings inside the Rayburn, in a big pot, trivet in the bottom, and some water

Otherwise, I'd do them in the PC to stop the kitchen being bathed in steam.

shepherdgirl

Thanks for your suggestions - was bothered about the kitchen being full of steam as well - LOL

Seraphina, you said
"Because steamed puddings (as opposed to suet puds or Christmas puds) generally need to rise, you need to steam them without pressure for a little while first - just stick a lid over the PC."

Does this mean I should/would be better to cook the xmas puds in the pressure cooker this year ?

Sorry, as said before I'm on a steep learning curve LOL, and one question always leads to another.

seraphina

shepherdgirl wrote: »

Thanks for your suggestions - was bothered about the kitchen being full of steam as well - LOL

Seraphina, you said
"Because steamed puddings (as opposed to suet puds or Christmas puds) generally need to rise, you need to steam them without pressure for a little while first - just stick a lid over the PC."

Does this mean I should/would be better to cook the xmas puds in the pressure cooker this year ?

Sorry, as said before I'm on a steep learning curve LOL, and one question always leads to another.

I cook Christmas puds in the PC solely because they take a fraction of the time and my kitchen doesn't fill up with steam:D For a 2lb pud I reckon on about 2hr 30 mins of PC steaming at 15psi pressure (or High pressure on most PCs). Then on the day, reckon on 30-45 min steaming in the PC.

I think the saving on gas by cooking Xmas puds in the PC vs. in a normal pot has paid for my PC already:rotfl: