Wow, supervising these puddings was WORK!
And so right this moment, properly, right this moment we’re wordless EXCEPT for this:
Suzanne’s Plum Pudding
1 ½ cups dried apricots, chopped semi wonderful
1 cup dates or figs, chopped semi wonderful
1 cup dried prunes, chopped semi wonderful
1 cups golden raisins, sprinkled with a little bit brandy or rum
1 cup black raisins, sprinkled with a little bit brandy or rum
1 giant cooking apple, chopped wonderful
1 1/4 cup brown sugar
Zest and juices of 1 orange and 1 lemon (or tangerine)
1 teaspoon cardamom
1 teaspoon mace
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon ginger
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon clove
1 cup plum purée (Optionally available however awfully good; frozen from summer time’s crop)
2 cups bread crumbs from a hearty bread, if potential
1 ½ cups Cognac
1 ½ cups flour (sifted or not)
1 cup toasted almonds, pecans, or hazelnuts, chopped coarse
1 1/2 sticks butter, softened
2 teaspoons duck fats (Optionally available)
3 eggs, crushed
Tiny pinch of cayenne
Cognac or rum to taste puddings (some even use bourbon)
Combine all the pieces however the flour and eggs in a really giant bowl, and moisten with Cognac. Let sit in a single day or as much as two days, however you may additionally make the puddings instantly.
Butter pudding molds or little glass heatproof dessert bowls for particular person puddings of 8 ounces. Or use bigger glass bowls which can match inside one other bowl of simmering water. Add the remainder of the elements to the fruit combination, stirring properly. Have a big shallow pot of boiling water prepared and a rack, on which you’ll set your puddings.
Or, alternatively, steam the molds within the oven at 250F/165C in a pan of simmering water.
Examine the water as soon as throughout cooking to ensure right here is sufficient within the pan to steam.
Pack the molds properly, leaving about 1/2″ a the highest. Cowl tightly with foil and place the dishes in boiling water which comes midway up the bowl. Decrease warmth, cowl the pot, and simmer puddings for 1 to 1 ½ hours. Take away from water and let cool. Take away foil and loosen puddings with a pointy knife across the within the bowl. Invert puddings and pour 2 teaspoons brandy or rum over every one.
Wrap in plastic wrap, then in foil to ripen. The puddings will keep contemporary in fridge for 1 yr.
To serve, warmth the oven to 350. Unwrap the pudding from the plastic wrap and put it again within the foil.
Warmth within the oven for 15-20 minutes.
Serve with exhausting sauce: Combine 2 tablespoons softened butter with 2 cups powdered sugar and 2-3 teaspoons Cognac, rum, or milk till the sauce has the consistency of soppy icing.
To flame pudding: Place 1 cup rum or Cognac in giant ladle. Maintain over open flame to warmth the spoon. Liquor will ignite. Pour over the recent pudding and serve the exhausting sauce on the aspect or over the pudding as properly.
Plum pudding starting
Coated with foil and steaming
Prepared for booze…then Santa time.
