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jamanda
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Christmas puddingI made my Christmas pudding today, so I'm feeling organised and virtuous. I use my great Grandmother's recipe adopted by my Mum and then further by me (extra cherries!). I've now got to sit up late until it finishes its eight hours primary steaming.
I was thinking how odd it was for a dish that is traditionally British, very few of the ingredients are indigenous, so to speak.
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Bernie66
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Downsizer tradition would have it that you post the recipe for us to look at and copy should we desire. 
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Naomi
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Hmmm I can almost smell it! recipe please?
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jamanda
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Christmas puddingOK - This is the full version to serve 12. I half it to fit in a 1.5 pint pudding basin.
4oz SR flour
2 oz fresh white bread crumbs
1 teaspoon mixed spice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
4 oz suet (or veggie suet)
4 oz dark brown sugar
1 lb mixed dried vine fruits (I use 1/2 and 1/2 sultannas and raisins, Mum includes currants and candied peel)
2 oz chopped dried apricots
4oz chopped almonds (chop them yourself so you still get some big bits)
6 oz glace cherries (I leave them whole)
4 oz grated apple
1 tablespoon golden syrup
1/4 pint ale (Gran used to use Barley wine)
2 eggs
juice and rind of 1 lemon
Put all ingredients up to the cherries in a mixing bowl and mix with your hands to get the fruit broken apart and coated in the dry ingredients.
Add everything else and mix, ensuring everyone in the house has a stir and makes a wish.
Grease a 3 pint pudding basin, pour in the mixture, tuck in siver sixpence wrapped in greaseproof paper, cover with foil and fasten tightly under the rim of the basin with a strong elastic band (and a piece of string in case the elastic band snaps).
Steam for eight hours. (Or considerably less in the pressure cooker) On Christmas day you can steam again for an hour or two, or put it in the microwave to heat through. (Extra steaming will make it darker and stronger flavoured. ) Turn out, pour over alcohol of choice (I use rum) and set on fire.
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Naomi
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Wonderful .Thanks!
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Bernie66
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Jamanda, were you not warned about DS traditions before joining?
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Northern_Lad
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| Bernie66 wrote: | | Jamanda, were you not warned about DS traditions before joining? |
Hmm, good point. She'd have to get someone to proof-read it before sumbission though.
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Bernie66
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"Cast a very critical eye" more like
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Thriftycook
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Re: Christmas pudding | Jamanda wrote: |
I was thinking how odd it was for a dish that is traditionally British, very few of the ingredients are indigenous, so to speak. |
Sounds delicious  Lots of festive dishes contain what were once very expensive and difficult to obtain ingredients. Spices, sugar and dried fruit were very precious and saved for special dishes.
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jamanda
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| Northern_Lad wrote: | | Bernie66 wrote: | | Jamanda, were you not warned about DS traditions before joining? |
Hmm, good point. She'd have to get someone to proof-read it before sumbission though. |
Well I thought it possible that in all this there is already a Christmas pudding recipe! But it is a good one, so I guess replication wouldn't matter.
As for getting stuff proof read - I like to leave in a few speling mistakes just to keep him on his toes.
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Bernie66
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And to make him feel superior
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jamanda
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Indulging in a bit of thread necromancy here. What shall I use instead of suet to make it suitable for veggies? Would butter be OK do you think?
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windyridge
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Vegetarian suet... atora do one.
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Nicky cigreen
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vegetarian suet
I wont be making mine until stir up sunday though
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jamanda
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vegetarian suet
I wont be making mine until stir up sunday though |
I found some veggie suet at the greengrocer's. I dread to think what's in it, but it will have to do.
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foggy
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The offal of vegetables no one wants to use?
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Nicky cigreen
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The offal of vegetables no one wants to use? |
jamanda
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And the puds are in the steamers 
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gil
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My Xmas pudding recipe (it's either in the recipe database, or in an article) is vegetarian.
Possibly the article about a DS vegetarian Xmas ??
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jamanda
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My Xmas pudding recipe (it's either in the recipe database, or in an article) is vegetarian.
Possibly the article about a DS vegetarian Xmas ?? |
Mine is now too
VM
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I have just tried a couple of different Dan Lepard recipes - one including fresh plums - proof will be in the eating in some weeks from now. One used suet so I used the veggie stuff - the other had butter in. I've used a recipe with butter before in the past, but I don't think that you just substituted butter for suet - think quantities were different.
I have found veggie suet fine in puddings, but less good in mincemeat - unless use reduced quantity - find it a bit oily.
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jamanda
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I wondered if butter would not have the keeping qualities of suet, veggie or otherwise.
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arvo
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I have just tried a couple of different Dan Lepard recipes - |
I misread that as Def Leppard recipes. Bet they'd make massive overproduced Xmas puddings.
foggy
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& There'd be an unhealthy amount of beard fluff in it.
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jamanda
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& There'd be an unhealthy amount of beard fluff in it. |
Are you thinking of ZZ Top? Don't recall Def Leppard being beardy.
foggy
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Ah Yes.
Def Leppard had the one armed drummer.
Good at stirring.
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VM
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But unable to stir and drum at the same time, I imagine.
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DorsetScott
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Re: Christmas puddingOK - This is the full version to serve 12. I half it to fit in a 1.5 pint pudding basin.
4oz SR flour
2 oz fresh white bread crumbs
1 teaspoon mixed spice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
4 oz suet (or veggie suet)
4 oz dark brown sugar
1 lb mixed dried vine fruits (I use 1/2 and 1/2 sultannas and raisins, Mum includes currants and candied peel)
2 oz chopped dried apricots
4oz chopped almonds (chop them yourself so you still get some big bits)
6 oz glace cherries (I leave them whole)
4 oz grated apple
1 tablespoon golden syrup
1/4 pint ale (Gran used to use Barley wine)
2 eggs
juice and rind of 1 lemon
Put all ingredients up to the cherries in a mixing bowl and mix with your hands to get the fruit broken apart and coated in the dry ingredients.
Add everything else and mix, ensuring everyone in the house has a stir and makes a wish.
Grease a 3 pint pudding basin, pour in the mixture, tuck in siver sixpence wrapped in greaseproof paper, cover with foil and fasten tightly under the rim of the basin with a strong elastic band (and a piece of string in case the elastic band snaps).
Steam for eight hours. On Christmas day you can steam again for an hour or two, or put it in the microwave to heat through. (Extra steaming will make it darker and stronger flavoured. ) Turn out, pour over alcohol of choice (I use rum) and set on fire.
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OK, not to bring a thread back from the dead or anything, but we just decided to make our first christmas pudding this year, so this recipe has been made.
Just wondering what the best method of storing these is?
jamanda
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I just put a lid on and shove to the back of the cupboard. Cool, dark and dry is ideal.
I made mine a couple of days ago. Grandma Procter would be chuffed.
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DorsetScott
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Great, the basins I bought came with lids, so I'll just re-seal and stick in the back of the cupboard. No pressure on your recipe here either Jamanda! Either way, both my little girls had fun making it. Actually, so did the wife. And me
Definitely not too easy getting a 1 year old to stir the thick mixture though!!!!
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nats
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I tip mine out and wrap in foil - I need the basins before Christmas day! Did mine this weekend too - one in the pressure cooker and a first for me one in the slow cooker - both seemed to work well. Yummmmmmm!
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jamanda
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And it's that time of year again. I think I will add in some prunes soaked in calvados this year. Can't do any harm.
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wellington womble
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I'm not sure I'll bother this year. Much as I like it, we are elsewhere for Christmas again (at a house where grandma makes the pudding) and no one else eats it.
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sgt.colon
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We might skip Delia's recipe this year and give your grandmothers a try Jamanda.
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jamanda
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11 years on - and tomorrow will be stir up Tuesday!
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sean
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And it's that time of year again. I think I will add in some prunes soaked in calvados this year. Can't do any harm. |
There are still some of those in the pantry.
sgt.colon
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Not that long off Christmas now is it?
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jamanda
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Here we go again! Coconut fat instead of veggie suet (which is basically palm oil)
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sgt.colon
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Does it make a good substitute Jamanda?
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dpack
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coconut fat is ace for several things, tt includes it in her vegan "butter" recipe which is surprisingly good although it is not butter.
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gz
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can that be added to the recipe base please dpack?
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dpack
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will do when she gets back from mumsy duties in london village.
it is rather nice and iirc there are several versions
the one that involves a lactic fermentation of some sort of seeds to give a dubious looking liquor is a bit of a faff but is better than the chuck it all in and blend them ones
as far as i can tell a couple of hours work over a week or so can make a lot of the stuff.
it keeps a few weeks in a fridge and freezes well for the bulk stuff.
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gz
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Thanks...when it comes, I'll pass it on to the definitely vegan, and lactose free family members
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dpack
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i am not sure it is lactose free as the lactic acid bacteria ferment of the seeds must have a substrate
it is very dairy free and maybe vegan if bugs don't count as critters
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jamanda
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Bit late this year with one thing and another, but this is this weekend's job.
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dpack
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i recon sd might find a few over order ones so me making a poor one seems daft, ditto cake
i might think about a brush transfer delivery of home cooked meats in exchange
odd one this year, we postponed one for a day at 9 ladies as nobody could do it in any capacity after the night before
the day after version was ace and better than most on the day ones.
this might be an extended timescale
pud and cake and tings are nice but at the mo things that travel rather than do easy portions and service to table make sense
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Mistress Rose
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I am thinking about making our Christmas pudding this year, but have left it a bit late. Must check for the ingredients this weekend but have biscuits and scones to make. Scones are a run through for DILs birthday later in the week. Not sure how I am going to get them to her as son is on leave, but sure we can find a delivery to make in that direction and leave them on the doorstep.
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Nicky cigreen
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not too late - stir up Sunday is next weekend - that's when we are making ours
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Mistress Rose
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I will check the ingredients today and get what I need, then make this weekend.
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