Recipes for puddings: Christmas, chocolate traditional English

Christmas pudding recipes, chocolate, English, bowls and round mould, pictures

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Sometimes known as plum pudding or Christmas duff, Christmas pudding is a steamed pudding originally designed to create something rich and tasty from traditionally expensive ingredients and the sweet spices that create its distinctively rich aroma. It is a very dark pudding, almost black, the look is created from the use of the dark sugar, black treacle and the long cooking.

Originally they were boiled in a pudding cloth which gave them their round appearance, however since the beginning of the 20th century it has been far more common to use bowls.

When presented for cutting and eating it is usually smothered in warm brandy and set alight creating the magical Christmas effect.

Traditional recipes

BBC Recipes
The traditional Christmas pudding must be made well before Christmas, at least two months, and then fed with alcohol regularly for the full flavour to develop.

Delia Online
The classic Christmas pudding recipe from the legendary Delia Smith, the recipe provided makes a two pint (1.2 litre) pudding. Christmas pudding reheats easily.

Britain Express
The flavour of a Christmas pudding develops with time, there’s no point making one a couple of days before the event. Many people will make theirs the year before.

Special recipes

Your County
All Christmas puddings follow the same basic recipe however you can change this depending on need. Nut allergies can be dealt with by not adding any nuts, easy.

You's Chocolate Christmas Pudding
What could be better than a spiced Chocolate Christmas pudding? Probably nothing, although with chocolate the pudding doesn’t last as long. Serve with double cream.

Gluten-free Christmas pudding
If you’ve been tested (and it’s an easy test) to see if you’re gluten-intolerant (coeliac) and you are why not try this amazing Christmas pudding variant that’s gluten-free.

Last updated October 6, 2007 8:17 AM