Christmas Fruit & Nut Puddings

Pudding Recipes given here are easy to cook and absolutely delicious. Properly made Christmas puddings will be extremely tasty and make your Christmas celebrations a memorable experience. Enjoy these Puddings with your loved ones during this Christmas.

Christmas Pudding – Version 1

1 lb. raisins (stoned)
1 lb. chopped apples
1 lb. currants
1 lb. breadcrumbs
1/2 lb. mixed peel, chopped fine
1 lb. shelled and ground Brazil nuts
1/2 lb. chopped sweet almonds
1 oz. bitter almonds (ground)
1 lb. sugar
1/2 lb. butter
1/2 oz. mixed spice
6 eggs

Instructions:

Wash, pick, and dry the fruit, rub the butter into the breadcrumbs, beat up the eggs, and mix all the ingredients together; if the mixture is too dry, add a little milk. Fill some greased basins with the mixture, and boil the puddings from 3 to 4 hours.

Christmas Pudding – Version 2

12 oz. breadcrumbs
1/2 lb. currants
1/2 lb. raisins
1/2 lb. sweet almonds
1 doz. bitter almonds
3/4 lb. moist sugar
3 oz. of butter
2 oz. candied peel
8 eggs
1 teaspoonful of spice
1 teacupful of apple sauce.

Instructions:

Rub the butter into the breadcrumbs, wash, pick, and dry the fruit, stone the raisins, chop or grind the almonds, beat up the eggs, mixing all well together, at the last stir in the apple sauce. Boil the pudding in a buttered mould for 4 hours, and serve with white sauce.

Christmas Pudding – Version 3

1 lb. each of raisins
currants
sultanas
chopped apples
Brazil nut kernels

1/2 lb. each of moist sugar, whole meal breadcrumbs, wheat meal, and sweet almonds and butter 1/4 lb. of mixed peel
1/2 oz. of mixed spice
6 eggs
some milk

Instructions:

Wash and pick the currants and sultanas; wash and stone the raisins; chop fine the nut kernels, blanch and chop fine the almonds, and cut up fine the mixed peel. Rub the butter into the meal and breadcrumbs. First mix all the dry ingredients, then beat well the eggs and add them. Pour as much milk as is necessary to moisten the mixture sufficiently to work

it with a wooden spoon. Have ready buttered pudding basins, nearly fill them with the mixture, cover with pieces of buttered paper, tie pudding cloths over the basins, and boil for 4 hours.