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A SIMPLE Christmas Pudding - Boil, Steam, Slow, or Pressure Cook!

Here we go with my Christmas Pudding for 2024, and for this one I ended up using a load of half-empty packets of ingredients. No suet in this one so it is Vegetarian friendly. Four different ways to cook this one, so great to fit into your day! Mixing Bowl: https://amzn.to/3YKOFaq Pudding Basin, 1L: https://amzn.to/48Q8PED Sage the Fast Slow Cooker Pro: https://amzn.to/3YYUN0d CHRISTMAS PUDDING, serves 6-8 people INGREDIENTS 450g dried mixed fruit (any mix of sultanas, raisins, currants, cherries, candied peel, snipped apricots etc) 1 small cooking apple, peeled, cored and roughly chopped 1 orange, finely grated rind and juice 3TBSP brandy, sherry, or rum 75g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing the basin 100g muscovado or light brown sugar (I used a mix, just to empty a packet) 2 free-range eggs 100g self-raising flour 1tsp baking powder 1tsp mixed spice 40g fresh white breadcrumbs 40g blanched almonds, roughly chopped METHOD Put the dried mixed fruit and apple into a bowl with the orange juice. Add the brandy, rum, or sherry, stir and leave to marinate for at least one hour. Put the butter, sugar and orange rind into a large bowl and cream together with a wooden spoon or a hand-held whisk, until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs, adding a little of the flour if the mixture starts to curdle. Mix the flour and mixed spice, then fold into the creamed mixture with the breadcrumbs and the nuts. Add the soaked dried fruits with their soaking liquid and stir well. Generously butter a 1.4 litre/2½ pint pudding basin. Cut a small disc of foil or baking parchment and press into the base of the basin. Spoon the mixture into the pudding basin and press it down with the back of a spoon. Cover the pudding with a layer of baking parchment paper and foil, both pleated across the middle to allow for expansion. Tie securely with string and trim off excess paper and foil with scissors. TO STEAM Put the pudding in the top of a steamer filled with simmering water, cover with a lid and steam for eight hours, topping up the water as necessary. TO BOIL Put a metal jam jar lid, or metal pan lid, into the base of a large pan to act as a trivet. Place a long, doubled strip of foil in the pan, between the trivet and the pudding basin, ensuring the ends of the strip reach up and hang over the edges of the pan. This will help you to lift the heavy pudding basin out of the pan of hot water when it has finished cooking. Lower the pudding onto the trivet and pour in enough boiling water to come halfway up the side of the bowl. Cover with a lid, bring the water back to the boil, then simmer for about seven hours, until the pudding is a glorious deep brown colour, topping up the water as necessary. TO SLOW COOK Preheat the slow cooker on HIGH, add enough boiling water to come just over halfway up the basin. Carefully lower the basin into the slow cooker. Set the heat to LOW and cook for 10 hours. TO PRESSURE COOK Place the basin into the pressure cooker and add boiling water in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. Cook the pudding for the first 15 minutes with the lid open to allow the self-raising flour and baking powder to activate. Close the lid and cook for a further 2 hours. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Allow the pudding to cool for about 5 hours, cover, then refrigerate until the big day. Simply reheat in the microwave (or steamer etc). Serve with the custard or butter of your choice! ◀-------- COFFEE & SEEDS ---------▶ If you fancy buying me a packet of seeds or a cup of coffee to help support the channel, then here is the link. https://www.PayPal.Me/digwellgreenfin.... All donations will go towards improving the channel. Thanks. ◀------ MY AMAZON STORE ------▶ Pop into my Amazon Store and take a look at some of the things I use. All products are recommended by me, I don't promote rubbish! https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/digwell... ◀------ AFFILIATE LINKS------ ▶ ▶-------- SPICES on the WEB--------- ◀ I use a supplier called “Spices on the Web” and they have most generously offered my viewers a 20% on their basket price. Simply add the code “DIGWELL20” to your order from https://spicesontheweb.co.uk/ for the discount to apply. ◀--------- AMAZON DISCLAIMER ---------▶ “Digwell Greenfingers” is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees (at no cost to yourself) by advertising and linking to http://Amazon.co.uk. ◀--------- VIDEO TAGS ---------▶ A SIMPLE Christmas Pudding - Boil, Steam, Slow, or Pressure Cook! #christmaspudding #christmasrecipe #pressurecooker