Recipe of Favorite Christmas pudding

Christmas pudding.

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, christmas pudding. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Christmas pudding is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It's simple, it's fast, it tastes delicious. Christmas pudding is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas pudding using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas pudding:

1. {Prepare of Waitrose brandy-soaked mixed fruits-make your own overnight.
2. {Get of brandy.
3. {Prepare of plain flour.
4. {Get of baking powder.
5. {Get of fresh breadcrumbs (you can use white bread).
6. {Take of dark brown sugar.
7. {Take of ground cinnamon.
8. {Take of freshly ground nutmeg.
9. {Prepare of Grated zest of 1 lemon(or orange).
10. {Take of shredded vegetable suet.
11. {Get of cooking apple peeled and grated.
12. {Get of almond flakes.
13. {Make ready of eggs beaten.
14. {Get of Butter or vegetable spread for greasing.

Steps to make Christmas pudding:

1. Soak fruits overnight in brandy if using your own mix. I soaked them in 80 ml of brandy just as I start getting mix ready for extra alcohol..
2. Mix flour, baking powder, fresh breadcrumbs, sugar, spices, lemon zest, suet, apple and almonds in big bowl..
3. Add fruit and remaining juices to the flour mix.
4. Beat the eggs and add to mixture. Stir to mix well..
5. Prepare pudding basin: butter (use veg spread if preferred) a 1.2litre basin. Put disc of baking paper in the base.
6. Pour mixture in prepared basin.
7. Cover with a double sheet of baking paper and add two layers of foil on top. Tie all the layers with a secure knot and arrange handle to be able to lift pudding.
8. Place pudding in a large pan(I use my maslin pan which I use for preserves) and fill halfway with water. Cover with a lid and steam for 6 hours..
9. You may have to top water up every now and again as it evaporates..
10. After steaming lift pudding from the pan and let it cool completely. Remove foil and baking parchment and cover with new sheets..
11. Store in cool dark place for up to 6 weeks..
12. To reheat steam for 2 hours as before until piping hot. Invert pudding into large plate to serve.
13. I like mine with brandy sauce but everyone else at home will have it with custard instead..
14. To flame the pudding warm 100ml of brandy in a small saucepan but do not let it boil. Pour over the pudding and quickly ignite keeping at arms length..

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