Hookery Cookery Home > Christmas Recipes > Plum Pudding (1) Makes 2 x 1.5 lb. (675g) puddings
Description/Notes:
You can make this delicious fruity pudding well in advance of the festive season and store or freeze it for your convenience
Ingredients:
Cooking Instructions:
- Grease 2 x 1.5 lb. (675g) pudding basins with lard
- Place all the fruit and dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix well
- Beat together the eggs, honey and wine then add to the fruit mixture and stir well
- Share the mixture between the two pudding basins
- Cover the basins with a double layer of greaseproof paper, then a piece of pleated foil
- Tie securely with string
- Place in a steamer over a pan of boiling water or in a pan of boiling water that comes two thirds of the way up the sides of the basins
- Steam the puddings for 4 hours, topping up with boiling water as necessary
- If the pudding is to be stored, replace the wrappings with fresh greaseproof paper, foil and string as before
- Seal, label and place in a freezer or cool, dry cupboard for up to 12 months
- To re-heat thaw the frozen pudding overnight, unwrap and steam for 20 minutes
- Serve the pudding by turning out on a serving plate, dust with icing sugar and decorate with a sprig of holly