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Recipe Ingredient
- Guinness and Fruit Christmas Pudding
- 500g raisins
- 500g mixed dried fruit (currants, oranges, dates etc.), roughly chopped
- 200ml Guinness
- 250g butter
- 280g caster sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground clove
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 2 cups soft white breadcrumbs
Instructions
- Mix the fruit and Guiness together in a non-reactive bowl, cover with a tea towel and leave overnight to soak.
- Cream together the butter and sugar then beat in the eggs one at a time. Fold through the dry ingredients and fruit mixture, including any liquid collecting in the bottom of the bowl.
- Grease and line the base of 2-3 pudding basins and divide the mixture between them. Cover tightly with more greaseproof paper and aluminium foil and leave overnight in the fridge.
- Place a small rack, trivet or layer of tea towels in the base of a large saucepan big enough to fit your pudding basins. Fill the saucepan with boiling water three-quarters of the way up your pudding basins. Bring to a simmer and cover, continuing to simmer for 3 and a half hours, topping up the water every hour. Alternatively, steam the puddings for 7 and a half hours, topping up the steaming water every half hour.
- Turn out the puddings, slice and serve with vanilla custard.
I wonder why the notes beneath the photo of the pudding and custard say the recipe takes 20 minutes to cook, when it is actually steamed for 3 and 1/2, or even 7 and 1/2 hours!!
Hi Hartley, thanks for the heads up and we’ve amended the preparation and cooking time accordingly. Nevertheless, these are indicative, depending on the chefs’ time. Happy Cooking!