Taylors Port Christmas Pudding Recipe
Recipe: Christmas Pudding with Port
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This extravagant Christmas pudding recipe with Port is simply sensational. Soaking the dried fruit overnight in Port adds to the fruity flavours of the pudding and helps to ensure that the Christmas pudding stays light and moist.
Ingredients:
- 350g sultanas
- 350g raisins or currants
- 150g dried figs, chopped
- 125g candied peel
- 100g dried apricots
- 75g dark glace cherries, halved
- 150ml of Port Wine (Taylors 10yr Tawny works well)
- 100g ginger in syrup, chopped, plus 2 tbsp of the syrup
- 2 apples or quinces, grated
- 2 oranges, juice and zest
- 6 eggs, beaten
- 250 gshredded suet
- 350g soft muscovado sugar
- 250g fresh breadcrumbs
- 175g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp mixed spice
Method:
For this recipe you will need two 1.5 litre (2½ pint) plastic pudding basins with lids.
Soak the sultanas, raisins, currants, figs, peel, apricots and cherries in the Port overnight, giving it a good stir now and again.
The following day, in a large bowl mix the ginger, syrup, apples or quinces, orange juice and zest with the eggs, suet, sugar, crumbs and flour. Butter the two pudding basins and divide the mix between them.
Cut two circles of greaseproof paper to cover the top of the pudding and fold a pleat down the centre to allow pudding to expand.
Put lids on the basins and steam puddings for 3½ hours.
Let puddings cool before removing greaseproof paper and covering tightly with cling film and lid. The puddings can now be stored in a cool, dry place until Christmas.
To reheat, steam Christmas pudding for a further 3½ hours, turn out and flame with brandy.