Christmas pudding - wait till you see the recipe
@allknowing (130064)
India
September 28, 2019 4:41am CST
It is not just a pudding and that you will agree with me when you take a bit of your time to have a look at the recipe that BBC's special food section has published for all of us to see.
I was balled over going through this recipe although I have made a Christmas pudding - which I might say just a pudding.
It is suggested that it is made atleast a month in advance as the best pudding is, if it stays for a month before consuming it. This pudding stays fresh even up to a year
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Here is the recipe
Get motivated in November to make your Christmas pudding to have it mature in time for Christmas. Equipment and preparation: You will need a 1.2 litre/2 pint pudding basin, baking paper, foil and kitchen string.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
28 Sep 19
My mother always used to make the Christmas pudding from a recipe which, she claimed, was the one used in the Royal Household in the time of George III. I believe that this was true, actually, because I have since seen a reference to this recipe being published in a Ladies' Magazine in the 19th Century.
The recipe was very similar to the one your link shows except that, instead of butter, it had suet, brandy was used in place of rum and I think that the fruit was soaked in tea rather than stout. It also included quite a bit of grated carrot, probably instead of the breadcrumbs.
We had a large electrically heated tub for washing/boiling clothes in and this was put to good use for boiling the puddings, which took all day and filled the kitchen with a delicious scent of dried fruit, spices and hot pudding cloths (the tops of the pudding bowls were covered with pieces of old bedsheet tied on tightly with string).
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
28 Sep 19
Those days will never ever be seen again not just in your household but in the whole wide world. I get choked when I see how things have changed.
Christmas is what you have described - the kitchen getting those smells lasting for many days with carols in the background.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
29 Sep 19
@LadyDuck I thought that the Christmas Pudding was a very specifically British thing, so I'm a little surprised to hear an Italian say that they made one. On the other hand, I have no reason to be surprised, really, because I've been making Spaghetti Bolognese and Macaroni Cheese and all sorts of 'foreign' dishes - not forgetting curries and biryanis, of course - for ages!
I have never made a Christmas Pudding, though! 
I think I shall have to dig out my mother's recipe and make one this year.
I think I shall have to dig out my mother's recipe and make one this year.1 person likes this
@allknowing (130064)
• India
29 Sep 19
I know what you mean. It is a matter of getting used to something that is new to our palate.
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@LadyDuck (458388)
• Switzerland
29 Sep 19
@allknowing Nobody in the family was a big fan of fruit cakes, I had to imagine that this was not what they would have liked more, but I like to try recipes from around the world.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
29 Sep 19
Knowing about the dry fruits it contains that would be my choice.
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