Lost Christmas pudding recipe

[Tomatoaddict]

so, the puddings are steamed right?
I finally got a pudding mold and have been wanting to make one but have no idea what I am doing.

[bubblewrap]

I'll dig my Pudding club book out and post theirs - it's a spiffer[/QUOTE]

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[Hazel at the Hill]

so, the puddings are steamed right?
I finally got a pudding mold and have been wanting to make one but have no idea what I am doing.

Yep - when we grew up, mum had tupperware pudding basins with lids in which she would steam either sponges (it took hours - why would you not just cook a sponge in the oven?), puddings like christmas pud, or suet pies like steak and kidney. Yum!

We had a steamer at home which was a pan at the bottom which was filled with water over which a perforated pan - in which you put the tuperware container - was fitted with a lid.

Being told to 'put steamer on' was mental torture to relatively young children who were charged with keeping the water in the bottom pan topped up....I cannot tell you how often the 'responsible' child would wander off and the pan burn dry......

Oh, happy days...

[bubblewrap]

I remember my mum doing Christmas puds too but mum used a pottery bowl covered greaseproof paper & yes steamed for hours the longer the better

[shirlthegirl43]

Now you are all starting to get to the reason why I would like to find the slow cooker recipe again - you make up the pudding and put it in the bowls (plastic ones with lids are easiest), put a couple of pints of boiling water in the slow cooker and stick the pudding basin(s) in and leave the whole lot alone for however long. The pudding can be wrapped in greaseproof and foil and kept for Christmas then microwaved to heat on the day - no fuss, no bother, no endless topping up of water and no steam and condensation in the kitchen

I hope Rita has the recipe book

[Alison]

I tend to mine in the slow cooker too - it takes longer than the recipe says to steam normally but will leave it on all day or overnight and as Shirl says, no topping up and no kitchen full of condensation.

[ChrisB]

I too can't find my slow cooker recipe book, so ......

Should you cook the pudding on the high or low setting?

As soon as I find out I can put my pudding on to steam

[shirlthegirl43]

Would suggest the usual slow cooker routine - high for the first hour or so then low till cooked. If I remember correctly (and it is now 2 years since I made the crimbo pud I am trying to find) I put them to cook at bedtime as they took 12 hours so be warned ChrisB

[ChrisB]

Point taken, think the pudding may go on later then!!

Don't want to sit up half the night waiting for it to cook

[bubblewrap]

Just a question has anybody tried cooking their Christmas pud in a pressure cooker?

[scarey55]

Yes, I do every time -works a treat

[Alison]

My mum used to cook hers in a pressure cooker but I always opt for the slow cooker - partially as I don't have a pressure cooker and also I find the slow cooker works fine. Incidently I just put it on low for the whole cooking period and it seems to work fine.

[borage]

I've always cooked my christmas puddings in the pressure cooker and no complaints so far.

[Two_Sheds]

Dim question of the day ... whats the diff. between a slow cooker and a pressure cooker? I've used neither, but quite interested in getting one for Chrimbo

[Hazel at the Hill]

Superb news thanks Hazel. The crimbo pud recipe is deffo the nicest home made one I have tried.

Oh no! I'm going to have to let you down, Shirl. The slow cooker recipe book isn't the one your after (this is the Tower Slo-Cooker Book) - Rita was thinking of the Braised Oxtail recipe. It does have a christmas pud recipe in tho'.

Sorry - you search continues....