Christmas Plum Pudding
- 3 cups bread crumbs from good quality white bread, lightly packed
- 1 cup raisins, seedless yellow raisins and currants
- 113 cups sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon mace cinnamon and nutmeg
- 8 ounces butter melted
- 4 large eggs lightly beaten
- 1 dash almond extract
- 1/2 cup orange marmalade bitter
- 1/2 cup rum or bourbon, heated slighlty before serving
- Toss the crumbs in a large mixing bowl along with the two types of raisins, currants, sugar and spices.
- Then toss with the melted butter and all remaining ingredients except for the holly, rum/bourbon and zabaione.
- Taste for seasoning and add more if needed.
- Pack mixture into the container and cover with round of wax paper and lid.
- Set the continer on steaming device and add enough water to come up 13 up the sides of puding container.
- Cover kettle tightly bring to a simmer and let steam for 6 hours, checking water level now and then.
- Pudding is done when dark walnut brown in color and fairly firm to touch.
- Let pudding cool and then store in a wine cellar or the fridge.
- At least two hours before serving resteam the pudding.
- Unmold onto a hot flameproof serving platter and decorate with the holly.
- Bring to table along with the warmed booze and pour booze around pudding.
- Ignite and let flame.
- Serve with the zabaione
bread crumbs from, raisins, sugar, mace cinnamon, butter, eggs, almond extract, orange marmalade bitter, rum
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/christmas-plum-pudding-45891 (may not work)