Christmas pudding recipe (Christmas pudding)

The Christmas pudding (or Christmas pudding) is a traditional English Christmas sweet, as popular as it is exquisite. Discover how to make it at home easily with this delicious recipe.

Christmas is also a time to try all kinds of sweets from all over the world. The truth is that it is a really original way to distance yourself a bit from the typical nougat and mantecados while at the same time delighting our palate with the most varied sweets.

Do you like how this is sounding? Well then, you can’t lose sight of this Christmas pudding that is so popular in the United Kingdom .It has been taken on every December 25th and even on New Year’s for a couple of centuries and is characterized by having a production process that can vary depending on the region in which it is prepared.

In fact, there are many English towns that guard their own homemade recipes with great suspicion that they do not share with anyone and that are passed from generation to generation. Although they all have in common that they are made with fruits and nuts that are mixed with cow fat until they get a dark appearance.

After this, other alcoholic beverages such as brandy or cognac are mixed again through a process known as the Mallard reaction. Once all these ingredients are mixed, they are left hanging inside a dry cloth for a long time.

Christmas pudding recipe in the purest English style 

Surely after reading these first introductory lines, you have entered the desire to prepare this Christmas pudding from the kitchen of your house. What is we right? If so, it is time for you to take a pencil and paper so that you write down all these ingredients.

Ingredients for to prepare the Christmas pudding:

• 400 grams of flour
• 200 grams of butter
• 200 grams of sugar
• 150 grams of raisins
• 200 grams of candied fruit
• 200 grams of walnuts
• 3 tablespoons baking powder
• 1 glass of brandy

Once you have all these ingredients, we will proceed to carry out the following steps with which this Christmas pudding will become a reality:

Steps to perform to cook the Christmas pudding:

1. We take a bowl to which we will add all the butter, flour, sugar and eggs. We are beating everything with the help of some rods while at the same time we add the glass of brandy.
2. After this, we add the three tablespoons of baking powder together with the ground nuts, the raisins and the candied fruit. We mix vigorously again for a couple of minutes until we get a homogeneous mixture.
3. In a special oven mold that we will have previously greased with a little more butter, pour all the mixture that we have prepared in the second point. Once done, we put it in the oven for about 45 minutes at a temperature of 150-170 degrees.
4. Finally, we remove it from the oven and sprinkle a little more sugar if we wish. The ideal is to accompany it with a little coffee or a rich English tea accompanied by other pastries. After this… We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!