Vickis Xmas pud!

[vicki]

This is a very scrummy, dead easy recipe that you can make in your slow cooker and my mum said its as good as her gran used to make which is compliment indeed!

1 tsp each of cinnamon, nutmeg, and mixed spice
50g self raising flour
125g shredded suet
115g fresh white breadcrumbs
rind and juice of half a lemon
50g soft brown sugar
125g seedless raisins
125g currants
125g sultanas
50g mixed peel
50g prunes, stoned and chopped
50g blanched almonds, chopped
1tbs black treacle
3tbs rum
150ml stout or ale
2 eggs

Add spices to the flour, then add suet, breadcrumbs, lemon rind, sugar, dried fruit and nuts. Warm treacle in a pan until runny. Add rum, stout and lemon juice. Pour over the eggs and mix together. Add to the ddry ingredients and mix well. Cover and leave overnight.
Preheat slow cooker for 20 mins. Turn into a 2pt pudding basin and cover with foil. Stand in the slow cooker. Add boiling water to two thirds up the sides of the basin.
Cook for 13 hours. When cold, remove foil and recover with greaseproof paper and foil. If you don't have a slow cooker, steam for 7 hours.

Enjoy!

[Birdie Wife]

Wow! That looks good. My OH loves chrismas pud but can't usually find any in the shops without lots of alcohol in them - he doesn't like the taste. I make a fruit cake with stout in it though, which he likes, so I think I'll have a go at the recipe (but leave out the rum). How long does it keep once it's cooked? Or would you cook it almost all the way through and then steam it another 1/2 hour or so when you want to eat it?

I love Christmas pud too but usually I'm so stuffed from christmas lunch I just can't manage it mmmm

[ChrisB]

As I'm making the Christmas pudds this weekend I can see me going for this recipe - looks good to me yumeeeee

Thank you

[vicki]

I'll be making it this week and then I usually wrap it well in foil and its keeps til xmas fine - I then pop it back in the slow cooker on christmas morning and its ready by lunch time - I always use the slow cooker but if you are steaming it, cook it fully, then reheat when you're ready for it on xmas day. I don't think you could overcook it.

[ChrisB]

How much would you adjust the cooking time for a 1lb pudding. It really isn't worth me doing a large one, so will do one small one in the slowcooker and one in the pressure cooker

[vicki]

Oh I'm afraid I haven't a clue!!! I'm sure someone on the vine will be able to hazard a guess though! good luck!

[ChrisB]

Think I may have answered the question myself - got the cookbook out

In case anybody else needs to know, you reduce the cooking time by 1 hour

[vicki]

thanks Chris! Hope you like it - it is a FAB pud! Never lasts too long in our house - but we do have 13 for xmas dinner!!

[ChrisB]

Good grief - how many pudds do you make for that many?

[dexterdoglancashire]

Vicki that sounds wonderful! DDL

[Alison]

Excuse me being dim but why do you need to cook it for so long in the slow cooker in comparison with steaming? Haven't made one for about 10 years as normally get given one so can't remember what I did last time. The recipe I have is from a Julian Graves leaflet for a 1l pud and claims you should steam it for 3.25 hours (doesn't seem very long to me). Does anybody know how long I should slow cook it for?

[NEWTO THE PLOT]

was moaned at by the sister in law other day for not making xmas puds anymore, i'll give this one a try me thinks don't know why she moaned it's my brother that likes it

[vicki]

slow cooking is just that! slow! 13 hours is what the recipe says and its a pud I've made for the last few years so it does turn out ok! but as to WHY it takes that long - I have no idea I'm afraid!!!!