Best of the best Christmas pudding

Best of the best Christmas pudding

www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk

Inspired by a family recipe, this Christmas pudding is intensely fruity and deeply spiced – the best figgy pudding you’ll ever make.

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Cooking tools:

  • Pudding basin
  • Kitchen scale
  • Food processor
  • Butcher's string
  • Parchment paper
  • Aluminum foil
  • Saucer
  • Saucepan
  • Kettle
  • Stove
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Mixing bowl
  • Fork
  • Wooden spoon
  • Measuring spoon
  • Kitchen shears
  • Ladle
  • Matches

Ingredients

  • 150g raisins
  • 150g sultanas
  • 100g currants
  • 60g dried apricots, roughly chopped
  • 110g soft prunes, pitted and halved
  • 60g glacé cherries
  • 140ml brown ale
  • 1 banana (ideally brown)
  • Grated zest and juice 1 orange
  • 170g plain flour
  • 85g soft brown sugar
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ground nutmeg
  • ½ tsp allspice
  • ¼ tsp ground cloves
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • 85g brioche, whizzed into breadcrumbs
  • 110g beef suet
  • 2 medium free-range eggs
  • 150g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra to grease
  • 150g icing sugar
  • 2 tbsp brandy, plus extra to set the pudding alight
  • Specialist kit
  • 1 1/2 litres pudding basin
  • Butcher’s string

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