Christmas Plum Pudding and Hard Sauce
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
1 1/2 c currants
2 c raisins
3/4 c prunes
2 c mixed candied fruit
1 lb beef suet, cleaned
1 x juice and zest of one lemon
1 x juice and zest of one orange
5 c bread crumbs
2 1/2 c flour
1 c chopped almonds
2 c cooking apples, chopped
1 1/2 c firmly packed brown sugar
1 t each ginger
1 t cinnamon
1 t nutmeg
2 t salt
1 qt rum or cognac
4 ea eggs
-------------------------HARD SAUCE-------------------
1 c unsalted butter, softened
2 c confectioners' sugar
1 1/2 t vanilla
3 T brandy
1 x nutmeg
Start this pudding around Thanksgiving, so it has time to sit and
absorb alcohol for a month before Christmas.
Wash the candied fruit, raisins and prunes. Chop the prunes.
Mince the candied fruit and the suet.
Add all ingredients except liquor and eggs to a large bowl. Stir
to mix very well. Add 1 cup of the liquor and stir again. Cover
the bowl with a clean kitchen towel and put in a cool place.
Uncover every day, add 2 tablespoons run or cognac and stir will.
Recover. Continue until all but 1/4 cup of the liquor is added.
At this stage, pudding can stand 2 to 4 weeks.
When you are ready to cook it, add the eggs. The mixture may be
thinned a little with milk if it seems necessary. Butter and flour
pudding mold (a metal mixer bowl works well). Add pudding mixture
and cover with clean cotton cloth, tying securely with string. Set
mold in large pot of boiling water and boil at least six hours.
Remove and let stand 30 minutes. Unmold onto serving platter,
then heat remaining run or cognac, pour it over the pudding and
light it. Serve with hard sauce.
Hard Sauce:
Thoroughly cream butter. Beat sugar in gradually, as if making
mayonnaise. Add vanilla and brandy, beating gradually. Pour into
serving bowl and sprinkle nutmeg over the surface. Chill until
needed.
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