English Christmas pudding

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 6 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   Let's prepare the ingredients for the pudding. According to desire and taste, the composition can be expanded, reduced or changed. In some recipes, grated vegetables, fruits, and fresh berries are added to the pudding, but this is a matter of taste. The main thing is the availability of dried fruits, which need to be prepared in advance.

2. STEP 2

   

   Wash the dried fruits, let the water drain and soak them in an alcoholic drink, preferably cognac, overnight.

3. STEP 3

   

   Wash the walnuts, dry them in the microwave and finely crush them with a rolling pin or in a coffee grinder.

4. STEP 4

   

   Place softened butter in a bowl. Add sugar. Beat them together until smooth.

5. STEP 5

   

   Beat in the eggs and beat again using a mixer or hand whisk.

6. STEP 6

   

   Dissolve honey in milk; if honey is candied, you can melt it in a water bath, or stir in warm milk and cool.

7. STEP 7

   

   Pour the honey-milk mixture into the bowl with the egg-butter mixture. Add vegetable oil there. Add a pinch of cinnamon and vanilla, ground almonds, ginger powder and salt. Add the sifted flour, mix the mass again, the dough should have the consistency of sour cream.

8. STEP 8

   

   Grind the crumbs of white bread into crumbs; it is better to use yesterday's bread.

9. STEP 9

   

   We put dried fruits soaked in cognac into the dough, pour the remains of the cognac in which the dried fruits were soaked, and pour them there. Add bread crumbs and chopped walnuts. Mix the dough. You should get a fairly dense and thick mass.

10. STEP 10

    

    Cover a refractory pan with foil and grease it with butter.

11. STEP 11

    

    Spoon in the pudding mixture. We compact it tightly with a spoon so that no voids form inside.

12. STEP 12

    

    Cover the top of the pan with foil. Place the mold in a pan of boiling water. Water should cover the mold only a quarter of its height. Reduce the heat to low and simmer the pudding for about 5 hours (depending on its size and quantity of ingredients). Water needs to be added periodically.

13. STEP 13

    

    Remove the pudding from the mold and soak it in cognac. Leave it in a cool place for a day. Serve to the table, sprinkled with powdered sugar. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Alenka

25.10.2023

4.6

I liked the recipe, thank you. It will be delicious. I’m also interested in the version of semolina pudding, watch the video.