Classic Christmas pudding
Try our traditional recipe for homemade Christmas pudding. You can make this luxurious dessert a couple of months ahead
- Total:
- Serves: 16 persons
Ingredients
- 100g self-raising flour
- ¼tsp nutmeg, freshly grated
- ½tsp mixed spice
- ½tsp salt
- 175g fresh white breadcrumbs
- (veg version is fine) 175g shredded suet
- 50g dark brown sugar
- 220g currants
- 220g sultanas
- 1 ¼kg raisins
- 25g chopped almonds
- 200g cooking apple, grated
- 3eggs
- ½large orange, zested and juiced
- 75ml stout
Instructions
Step 1
Sift the flour with the spices then add the rest of the dry ingredients. Add the apple and mix well. Beat the eggs until frothy, stir in the orange juice, zest and stout. Add to the mixture and mix to combine thoroughly.Step 2
Spoon into buttered basins (i use the plastic ones with snap on lids). This amount is enough to fill an 850ml basin and 3 × 425ml ones. Cover with a pleated piece of greaseproof paper before putting on the lid. Put into a saucepan on a trivet or upturned saucer and add boiling water to come a quarter of the way up the bowl and steam for six hours. Top up the water as you need to. Pour yourself a large glass of red wine and wait for the waft of cooking christmas pudding to emanate from the kitchen.Step 3
Reheat by steaming again for an hour.