A Less Weird, More Modern, Way To Make Christmas Pudding

Posted on by Emily Rokke
Category: Food Facts,Weird Activities,Weird Food,Weird Trends
  • Do you think you might try this kind of Christmas Pudding?

If you don’t want to use ingredients like shredded beef suet or currants to make Christmas pudding, then this recipe might be less weird for you. Do you think you’d try it?

Soaked, dried Fruits 

  • 3/4 cup golden raisins
  • 3/4 cup chopped cherries
  • 2/3 cup mixed dried fruit or citrus peel
  • 3/4 cup chopped dried apricots
  • 2/3 cup brandy, cognac, whiskey or rum, your choice (You can substitute grape juice or apple juice.)

How To Make Christmas Pudding:

  • 3 cups stale bread crumbs. (Several day old bread is best. 
  • 3/4 cup warm milk
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup dark brown sugar 
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp allspice
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup very cold or frozen butter (Frozen is best if you’re grating it.)
  • 6 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp pure almond extract (optional)
  • 1/2 cup toasted chopped nuts of choice (optional)

Hard Royal Icing:

  • 2 room temperature egg whites
  • 2 2/3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp finely minced orange zest or lemon zest.

Instructions To Make Christmas Pudding:

  1. Grease your 9 cup pudding mold. 
  2. Line the mold with strips of parchment paper to help with the release it, after you make Christmas pudding.

To make the dried fruit:

  1. Mix together the dried fruits and liquid choice and let sit overnight or longer. 
  2. Stir it several times and keep it covered. 

To make the pudding: 

  1. Pour the milk over the breadcrumbs and set aside.
  2. Mix together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves. Set aside.
  3. Whisk together the eggs and mix them through the soaked bread crumbs.
  4. Grate the butter and toss with the dry ingredients. 
  5. Add the flour spice and butter mixture to the bread crumb and egg mixture, along with the dried fruits and nuts.
  6. Stir together well until completely combined.

How to steam when you make Christmas Pudding: 

  1. Pour the batter into your prepared pudding mold.
  2. Cover the top of the mold with the lid and then cover it with parchment paper before securing that with a string. 
  3. Place the mold in a stock pot or large Dutch oven that is at least twice the size of the mold/bowl you are using.
  4. Place a small cake rack or old tea plate on the bottom of the pot, place your pudding and then fill the pot halfway up the height of the pudding mold with boiling water, making sure to pur the water down the sides of the pot and not on top of the pudding mold. Also make sure to keep the water line at the same spot throughout the (very long) cooking process.
  5. Place the cover on the pot and bring it to a very gentle simmer and steam for about 4 hours.
  6. Cool the pudding in the mold before inverting it and removing it from the pan. 
  7. Top this pudding with powdered sugar and serve!

Alternatively, have you read Is Christmas Pudding Weird or Traditional? It’s a more traditional way to make Christmas Pudding. Let me know if you check it out in the comments!