Christmas pudding in slow cooker is it possible?

valk_scot

Do it in the microwave. Takes less than a minute usually.

charliee_3

i'll give a thrid vote for microwave... much much quicker and no hassle, plus you can just heat up whats needed (we never want pudding the same time in our house) and leave the rest for later...

use the slow cooker for your giblet gravy....

Icey77

I've always put mine in the slow cooker.

Put in an upside down saucer, put pudding on the saucer and fill with boiling water to within an inch of the top of the pudding.

Put on high and leave it

stef240377

Did wonder this myself as i have no microwave and am wary about using the pressure cooker for it as never done that before either.

jonny2510

Does anyone have one they've tried and tested, that they'd care to share?

I (stupidly) agreed to cook the Christmas pudding on Christmas day, expecting it to be fairly easy to prepare. After some searching, there seem to be many different recipes, and I have no idea which to choose!

There'll be four of us, so I'd like to cook for 6 (it wouldn't be Christmas pud without leftovers!), and other than that am open to suggestions.

I greatly appreciate any advice offered, but would prefer something that someone has actually tried in a slow cooker

Many thanks in advance

ellie2912

check your PM's

jonny2510

ellie2912 wrote: »

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Many thanks ellie, but it needs to be a slow cooker one, as I don't have time to watch over a saucepan for a day.

MrsBartolozzi

Hi Jonny,
I found several slow cooker recipes on google, I can't vouch for any of them, but the recipes all seem like you'd expect from an Xmas Pud, only the cooking times are "slow-cookerised". So i imagine you could make any recipe you know tastes good and use these recipes as guidance on cooking?


http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art5928.asp
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1570380/Why-not-try-making-your-own-Christmas-pud.html
Cooking instructions for pud in slow cooker here.

Hope this gives you some ideas.

System

i just made the delia smith one, then cooked in the slow cooker,looked great to me when it came out! did it for 4 hours on high then turned it to medium and left it overnight

waddy80

There is no real difference needed in the recipie to use the slowcooker. All you are doing is using it instead of a saucepan.

I too did delia's in the slowcooker. I put it on a cooking ring so it wasn't sat on the bottom of the cooker. It had 2 covers of baking parchment and 1 cover of tin foil. I filled the cooker with water (about 1/2 way up the bowl). I just left it on high for 12 hours.

On the day I will steam for a few hours in the slowcooker again.

I did it last year and it turned out lovely. I've tasted one of this years, and it seems fine!