Xmas Pudding Recipe

[lathany]

Can anyone recommend a good Xmas pudding recipe? Preferably rich and alcoholic? About the only thing I know(/think I know) is that they are supposed to be cooked/prepared a good three months in advance. Oh, and I'm not an experienced cook - this may be relevant.

(Give me another couple of months and I'll be making a similar request for Xmas cake!)

Comments

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

I don't know about 'supposed' to be cooked that far in advance...they do keep well: we've certainly had puddings at Easter from the Christmas before, and indeed at Chriostmas from the previous year, and they've all been good - the only problem is them surviving that long before being devoured!

I believe most editions of Mrs Beetons have a couple of good recipes for Christmas pud (and if you don't have a Mrs B, ask your mum, it seems like virtually every household used to have a copy!)

When I was growing up, Christmas pudding cooking was always an autumn half term activity, so you're being terribly organised thinking about it in the first week of term! My parents would do most of the hard work, admittedly, but everyone had to have a stir and a wish...it's also, from memory, definitely worth having a *big* pudding basin to mix it all up in, far bigger than mixing bowls for cake (I think the one we used to use was probably more like the volume of a big washing up bowl, probably more), because the mixture gets so bulky and heavy towards the end, and if you're making 2 or 3 puddings, that's a lot of mixture to be trying to handle...

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I believe most editions of Mrs Beetons have a couple of good recipes for Christmas pud

Sadly I don't and my mother loathed cooking, so I'm pretty certain she doesn't have one. I'll ask my mother-in-law, but I suspect she's similarly Mrs B-less.

I'm not sure about making two-three puddings at once, but I guess it can't hurt.

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

My dad has a fab recipe, but I don't know where he keeps it and he and his cookbook are not currently in the same place anyway... if you haven't one in a couple of weeks I will ask him to find it. He does have a Mrs Beetons I can access I think, and we must have a Pru Leith recipe for christmas pud - except sometmes here recipes are a little showy. I still haven't got round to making her 3-day Game Pie....

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Hello, can I invite you and Dom to dinner on 24th October then? Seeing as you're the sort of crazy people who plan things in advance, probably!

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Yes. We have a slight question mark over the babysitting, but I promise to let you know well in advance if there turns out to be a problem.

We're looking forward to seeing you!