Christmas pudding recipe

kjmtidea

I am going to make a christmas pudding this weekend but I have never made one before. I see Delia's recipe has been mentioned a few times on here but people seem to adapt it, would anyone be willing to share their recipe with me please? I'm making it for my other half and desperately want it to turn out lovely.

Thank you

JulieM

I'll start the ball rolling as you haven't had any replies yet, and maybe others will come along with more suggestions.

I find Delia's recipe too sweet so I adapt as follows:

Instead of 225g dark brown sugar, I use 100g of sugar and 2 tablespoons of treacle.
Use less of the dried fruit, I find 100g each of sultanas, raisins, currants and candied peel is enough, in fact I just buy packets of mixed fruit.
Leave out the apple and the orange zest and use the zest of a whole lemon.
Use only stout as the mixing liquid - Guiness will do.

kjmtidea

That's really great thank you

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This is my Christmas pudding recipe which I have used for over 25 years. The resulting pudding is quite light and crumbly. However I use butter because I am vegetarian (vegetarian suet was not available when I was young) so the texture may be a little differnt using suet.

3 oz s.r flour and 3 oz fresh breadcrumbs
4 oz suet
2 oz soft brown sugar
4 oz sultanas
6 oz raisins and 6 oz currants
2 oz chopped blanched almonds
2 large eggs
grated rind of 1 lemon and 1 orange
1 tsp cinammon pinch nutmeg and ground clove
4 tbl milk
8 tbl gold label

My mother's recipe is very similar but uses 6 oz of sugar and 6 of sultanas and 3 oz of peel. Her recipe dates from the 1950's.

I agree with the previous post about the liquid. In the 1970's I worked in a pub and the publican's mother who could have used any alcohol in their puddings always used Gold Label not brandy.

pricetag

I'll try those recipes this coming Christmas. Thanks for sharing.