French Market Recipe 2025 42
Le vrai Pudding de Noel
The real Christmas pudding
Ingredients
- 115g Flour
- 115ml grated unsalted butter or beef suet
- 115g Sultanas
- 115g Seeded raisins
- 115g Currants
- 115g Mixed peel
- 115g carrot raw and grated
- 115g Brown sugar
- 115g peeled raw potato grated
- Grated rind of lemon
- 60g shelled coarsely chopped almonds
- ½ teaspoonful grated nutmeg
- ½ teaspoonful grated cinnamon
- ½ teaspoonful mixed spice
- 125ml Frapin 1270 cognac
Directions:
- Peel and grate potatoes and carrots
- Grate the rind of the lemon
- Grate the butter or suet
- Mix all the ingredients together
- Each member of the family should take a turn to stir the mixture with a wooden spoon and make a wish
- Put the mixture in a pudding cloth and tie into a round ball
- Or grease a pudding basin and turn the mixture into the basin
- Cover with grease proof paper, the paper must overlap the edges of the bowl
- Tie string around the bowl to hold the paper in place
- Place in a saucepan of boiling water and steam for 3 hours
- Remove from saucepan and allow to drain and cool
- Store in the fridge until ready to use
- Prior to serving reheat by boiling again
Plate on a large heat proof dish, if you are adding lucky tokens or coins to the pudding these must be thoroughly sterilised in boiling water. Spoon a tiny amount of cognac over the hot pudding and very carefully light the cognac to flambee the pudding. Great care must be taken as the flames leap up quickly, only adults should do this, keep children away from the pudding. Serve as soon as flames have gone out and pair with a glass of Frapin Cognac 1270 available at our French Market shop or order online at www.frenchmarket.co.za.
Bon Appétit