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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> UK >> Scottish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. The night before stirring up the pudding, combine the candied fruit, nuts, raisins, currants, dates, dates/dried fruits, lemon peel and orange peel. | 2. Pour 1/2 cup rum over the top of the mixture. Cover and let it soak overnight. | 3. Add apple, carrot, beef suet, flour, bread crumbs, brown sugar, soda, cinnamon, mace, cardamom, and allspice. | 4. Mix the ingredients thoroughly. | 5. Whisk together the eggs, fruit juice and 1/4 cup rum in a small bowl. Pour over the fruit/flour mixture, and mix lightly until all ingredients are moistened. | 6. Spoon into two buttered pudding molds. Cover top of each pudding with buttered foil. | 7. Cover top of each pudding mold with a cloth dish towel. Tie the cloth tightly to the top using a loop of kitchen twine. | 8. Place puddings in steamers and steam for 6 hours. | 9. Remove from steamers and store in a cool place until Christmas Day or New Years' Day. | 10. Return the pudding to the steamer and steam for 2 hours more. | 11. To make hard sauce, combined butter, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and 2 tablespoons rum to make a thick paste. Chill 1 hour. | 12. Form the hard sauce into a two balls (one for each pudding) and wrap in waxed paper and store in refrigerator until ready to serve the pudding. | 13. To serve the pudding, place the hard sauce ball on the pudding, and stick the holly sprig through it to anchor it to the top of the pudding. | 14. Pour warm 2 tbsp rum over the pudding, and touch the surface with a lighted match to flame the pudding. Carry it flaming to the table while everyone cheers. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
fruit	2	cups	mixed candied	50.16	11.9064	2.1648	0.3432
nut walnut	1	cup	chopped mixed	773.75	11.975	30.075	74.1625
raisin	1/2	cup		249.15	65.604	2.7968	0.3795
currant	1/2	cup		35.28	8.6128	0.784	0.2296
fruit date	1	cup	chopped	-	-	-	-
rum	1	cup		-	-	-	-
lemon peel	1	teaspoon		0.94	0.32	0.03	0.006
orange peel	1	teaspoon		1.94	0.5	0.03	0.004
apple	1		chopped peeled	94.64	25.1342	0.4732	0.3094
carrot	1		peeled shredded	52.48	12.2624	1.1904	0.3072
suet	1/2			121.0545	0.0	0.2126	13.3245
flour	1	cup		578.28	126.6054	9.401	2.2436
fine breadcrumb	2	cups		-	-	-	-
brown sugar	1	cup		836.0	215.798	0.264	0.0
baking soda	1/2	teaspoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
cinnamon	1	teaspoon	ground	-	-	-	-
mace	1/2	teaspoon	ground	4.0375	0.4292	0.057	0.2752
cardamom	1	teaspoon	ground	6.22	1.3694	0.2152	0.134
allspice	1	teaspoon	ground	4.997	1.3703	0.1157	0.1651
egg	3			214.5	1.08	18.84	14.265
fruit juice	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
butter	1/2	cup	softened	684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
sugar	1 1/2	cups	powdered	700.2	179.58599999999998	0.0	0.0
vanilla extract	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.