Christmas Pudding

Tanlic

Tanlic

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I haven't had Christmas Pudding for 25 years but yesterday came across a Thai company known for selling some British foods advertising them via Marks and Spencer's and a couple of others. Ordered one medium size. Are they still popular in the Uk? By memory they are delicious but then again I thought the same about Irn Bru imported recently to Thailand and it tastes horrible like pare sugar to me now
 
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My mother still makes them and I think we still have the original sixpence that goes in it! It’s very rich and dark and not for everyone but my brother loves it and will eat it for days, often fried for breakfast! I’m not the biggest fan so will be making an alternative of pistachio and chocolate tart as I brought some pistachio paste back from France so I’m inventing it! Base of chocolate Oreos then the paste, then a chocolate ganache and maybe some whipped cream and pistachio praline...see how ambitious I am feeling!

And I’ve still got the Christmas cake to make!
 
I looked at making one but the ingredients on Youtube included: dates, turkish apricots, currents, raisins, dried cranberries, candy ginger, bourbon whiskey, orange zest, orange Juice, butter, suet, egg, heavy cream, buttermilk, salt, nuts flour and breadcrumbs.

For starters I couldnt find half of those here and even if one could by the time you bought everything you could feed yourself for a week or more.

Funny these people who never take cost into consideration when posting on Youtube.
 
Mrs AC makes about a dozen of them every year for family and friends. They taste great, but the feckin' 12 hour tension of mixing and cycling through the baking process is palpable. I tend to disappear for the day.
 
We gave up on Christmas pudding when in successive years they weren't eaten.

Just too much on top of all the other courses.

But I do love the richest of rich fruit cakes.
 
Currently soaking the fruit for my Christmas cake which I will make Sunday morning. I made a really good fruit cake in the summer so I’m repeating that. I often go a bit off piste in recipes so my fruit is soaking in cold tea and blackberry gin...could be interesting!
 
I was given a bottle of that pink gin which I didn’t really like so chucked a load of blackberries and sugar in it and left it for about a year......big improvement!

Damson whisky is one of the best I’ve made. Cheap whisky from Lidl and damsons which we grow. Oh and I made some limoncello this summer too. Goes well in a cocktail with gin, blackberry juice and tonic.
 
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