Christmas Puddings
Posted by: cunningplan on 12 November 2004
The festive season is nearly upon us, and I was just wondering about how many of you guys love Xmas Puddings. Mrs CP for the past 7 years has been making her own puddings.
They're made back in August and left to mature for a week in their mixing bucket (the ammount creeps up every year due to family and some friends putting their orders in) and then steamed for 4 hours.
After that they're stored in a cool dark place in greaseproof paper and foil until the big day, and then steamed for 2 hours again.
All I can say is that I do like my puddings it's one of the highlights of the day for me with a good dollop of white brandy sauce.
We could never go back to the bought ready made puddings you get in the various supermarkets.
Once you have a homemade one nothing else can match up.
How many of you guys get the bought or the real thing? I suppose it's like comparing Naim with various Japanese music systems, no contest really
Regards
Clive
They're made back in August and left to mature for a week in their mixing bucket (the ammount creeps up every year due to family and some friends putting their orders in) and then steamed for 4 hours.
After that they're stored in a cool dark place in greaseproof paper and foil until the big day, and then steamed for 2 hours again.
All I can say is that I do like my puddings it's one of the highlights of the day for me with a good dollop of white brandy sauce.
We could never go back to the bought ready made puddings you get in the various supermarkets.
Once you have a homemade one nothing else can match up.
How many of you guys get the bought or the real thing? I suppose it's like comparing Naim with various Japanese music systems, no contest really
Regards
Clive
A vivid memory from the '50s before. Many weeks before christmas there would be trays of fruit drying and all sorts of stuff being fashioned into home made christmas cake and puddings yummeee.Puddings were in an approx 6-8 inch diameter bowl with a cloth tied over the top and boiled/steamed in a large saucepan, when done unwrapped and tipped out onto a plate and ignited after dousing in warmed brandy, they also had silver threepenny pieces in them.
Mum reduced and eventually stopped the DIY after we moved to crawley smaller house changing tastes whatever a real shame.
Mind you I suspect she was quite glad it seemed to take forever to produce. My Mrs and kids don't like fruit cakes/puds so I usually get an individual one from a local real bakers unless we are at my sisters she and my BIL like them.
Howard
Mum reduced and eventually stopped the DIY after we moved to crawley smaller house changing tastes whatever a real shame.
Mind you I suspect she was quite glad it seemed to take forever to produce. My Mrs and kids don't like fruit cakes/puds so I usually get an individual one from a local real bakers unless we are at my sisters she and my BIL like them.
Howard
I prefer the Islamic version brought from our local Mosque, the Immam's Missus makes them earlier in the year, then they're stored in earthen jars in the ground for nearly a year too, and steamed accordingly and flambe'd with J.Walker.
Fritz Von Wotapuddin
Fritz Von Wotapuddin
can't abide the things myself.
rather have a nice apple pie.
rather have a nice apple pie.