Christmas Recipes: Delicious Christmas Puddings

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Pudding Recipes given here are easy to cook and absolutely delicious. Properly made Christmas puddings will be extremely tasty and make your Christmas celebrations a memorable experience. Enjoy these delicious Christmas puddings with your loved ones this holiday season.

Christmas Pudding #1

Ingredients

• 1 lb raisins (stoned)
• 1 lb chopped apples
• 1 lb currants
• 1 lb breadcrumbs
• 1/2 lb mixed peel, chopped fine
• 1 lb shelled and ground Brazil nuts
• 1/2 lb chopped sweet almonds
• 1 oz bitter almonds (ground)
• 1 lb sugar
• 1/2 lb butter
• 1/2 oz mixed spice
• 6 eggs

Instructions

1. Wash, pick, and dry the fruit.
2. Rub the butter into the breadcrumbs.
3. Beat up the eggs and mix all the ingredients together.
4. If the mixture is too dry, add a little milk.
5. Fill some greased basins with the mixture and boil the puddings from 3 to 4 hours.

Christmas Pudding #2

Ingredients

• 12 oz breadcrumbs
• 1/2 lb currants
• 1/2 lb raisins
• 1/2 lb sweet almonds
• 1 doz bitter almonds
• 3/4 lb moist sugar
• 3 oz of butter
• 2 oz candied peel
• 8 eggs
• 1 tsp of spice
• 1 teacupful of apple sauce

Instructions

1. Rub the butter into the breadcrumbs.
2. Wash, pick, and dry the fruit.
3. Stone the raisins.
4. Chop or grind the almonds
5. Beat up the eggs, mixing all well together.
6. Last stir in the apple sauce.
7. Boil the pudding in a buttered mould for 4 hours and serve with white sauce.

Christmas Pudding #3

Ingredients

• 1 lb each of raisins, currants, sultanas, chopped apples, and Brazil nut kernels
• 1/2 lb each of moist sugar, wholemeal breadcrumbs, wheatmeal, and sweet almonds and butter
• 1/4 lb of mixed peel
• 1/2 oz of mixed spice
• 6 eggs
• some milk

Instructions

1. Wash and pick the currants and sultanas; wash and stone the raisins.
2. Chop fine the nut kernels.
3. Blanch and chop fine the almonds and cut up fine the mixed peel.
4. Rub the butter into the meal and breadcrumbs.
5. First mix all the dry ingredients, then beat well the eggs and add them.
6. Pour as much milk as is necessary to moisten the mixture sufficiently to work
   it with a wooden spoon.
7. Have ready buttered pudding basins, nearly fill them with the mixture, cover with pieces of buttered paper, tie pudding cloths over the basins and boil for 4 hours.

Christmas Plum Pudding #1

Ingredients

• 1 cup finely-chopped beef suet
• 2 cup fine bread crumbs
• 1 heaping cup sugar
• 1 cup seeded raisins
• 1 cup well-washed currants
• 1 cup chopped blanched almonds
• 1/2 cup of citron, sliced thin
• 1 tsp of salt
• 1 tsp of cloves
• 2 tsp of cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
• 4 well-beaten eggs

Instructions

1. Dissolve a level teaspoonful of soda in a tablespoonful of warm water.
2. Flour the fruit thoroughly from a pint of flour; then mix the remainder as follows:
3. In a large bowl put the well-beaten eggs, sugar, spices and salt in one cupful of milk.
4. Stir in the fruit, chopped nuts, bread crumbs and suet, one after the other, until all are used, putting in the dissolved soda last and adding enough flour to make the fruit stick together, which will take all the pint.
5. Boil or steam three to four hours. Serve with wine or any well-flavored sauce.

Christmas Plum Pudding #2

Ingredients

• 2 cups ground suet
• 2 cups bread crumbs
• 2 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups seeded raisins
• 2 cups currants
• 1 cup finely cut citron
• 1 cup finely cut figs
• 1 tbsp finely cut orange peel
• 1 tbsp finely cut lemon peel
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp ground mace
• 1 tbsp salt
• 1 cup water or prune juice
• 1 cup grape or other fruit juice

Instructions

1. Mix thoroughly all dry ingredients and add fruit
2. Stir in water and fruit juice and mix thoroughly.
3. Add more water if necessary to make stiff dough.
4. Fill greased molds 2/3 full and steam two or three hours.
5. This pudding should be prepared and cooked a week or more before used. Before serving steam one hour and serve with hard, lemon or foamy sauce.

Final Thoughts on Delicious Christmas Puddings

These delicious Christmas puddings are a delightful and traditional dessert that bring warmth and joy to the holiday season. So, this holiday season, why not indulge in the deliciousness of a homemade Christmas pudding and create new memories with your loved ones?