English Christmas Pudding

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients for the pudding. At will and taste, the composition can be expanded, reduced or changed. In some recipes, grated vegetables, fruits, and fresh berries are added to the pudding, but this is a matter of taste. The main thing is the presence of dried fruits that need to be prepared in advance.

2. Step 2:

   

   My dried fruits, let the water drain and soak them in an alcoholic drink, preferably in cognac, overnight.

3. Step 3:

   

   Walnuts are washed, dried in the microwave and finely crushed with a rolling pin or in a coffee grinder.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put softened butter in a bowl. Add sugar. Beat them together until smooth.

5. Step 5:

   

   Drive in the chicken eggs, beat again with a mixer or a hand whisk.

6. Step 6:

   

   Dissolve honey in milk, if honey is candied, it can be melted in a water bath, or stir in warm milk and cool.

7. Step 7:

   

   Pour the honey-milk mixture into a bowl with egg-butter. We also pour vegetable oil into it. Add a pinch of cinnamon and vanilla, ground almonds, ginger powder and salt. Pour in the sifted flour, mix the mass again, the dough should have the consistency of sour cream.

9. Step 8:

   

   The crumb of white bread is ground into crumbs, it is better to use yesterday's bread.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put dried fruits soaked in cognac into the dough, pour the remnants of cognac in which the dried fruits were soaked into the same place. Add bread crumbs, chopped walnuts. Mix the dough. You should get a pretty dense and dense mass.

11. Step 10:

    

    Cover the refractory mold with foil, lubricate it with butter.

12. Step 11:

    

    Spread the pudding mass with a spoon. We tamp it tightly with a spoon so that no voids form inside.

13. Step 12:

    

    We tighten the form on top with foil. We put the mold in a saucepan with boiling water. Water should cover only a quarter of the shape of its height. Reduce the heat to a minimum and simmer the pudding for about 5 hours (depends on its size and the number of ingredients). Water needs to be refilled periodically.

14. Step 13:

    

    Take the pudding out of the mold, soak it with cognac. We leave it for a day in a cold place. Serve to the table, sprinkled with powdered sugar. Bon appetit!