Place the fruit, roughly chopped dates, raisins, water, sugars, salt and butter in a pan. Stir over low heat until butter has melted then simmer for 8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat ...

In Charles Dickens’ day, a traditional pudding was ball-shaped and heavy. Today, Christmas puddings are steamed rather than boiled, and made in a pudding mold rather than a cloth. From visions of ...

This pudding is lighter than the usual boiled Christmas cake and is delicious served with custard and cream or brandy sauce. I have explained how to cook it using calico, but you can use a pot with a ...

THEY’RE the best in the brandy butter biz, a formidable force of plump pudding perfectionists, and now the CWA have opened up their kitchen to teach us how to make Christmas pud at home. We try out a ...

The Victorians evolved this fruit pudding and began some of the traditions about luck that are now associated with it. Queen Victoria was the first to add coins to the mixture, apparently as a gesture ...

Any day now it will arrive stamped by the Royal Mail: a truly homemade Christmas pudding from my family in England. My mother always made Christmas puddings. And before moving to the U.S., I would ...

The Victorians evolved this fruit pudding and began some of the traditions about luck that are now associated with it. Queen Victoria was the first to add coins to the mixture, apparently as a gesture ...

They’re the best in the brandy butter biz, a formidable force of plump pudding perfectionists, and now the CWA have opened up their kitchen to teach us how to make Christmas pud at home. We try out a ...

One could write a treatise on the evolution of plum pudding from medieval kitchens to the present and never run out of information. And I'm sure someone has done it. Recipes for plum pudding abound.

Place the raisins, sultanas, currants and peel in a bowl and steep in the Armagnac overnight. The following day, cream the butter along with the lemon and orange rind, add the sugar and beat until ...