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admin
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Thanks Paul, Gluten Free answer...
Reply #45 on : Mon January 21, 2008, 09:10:59
Hi Paul,

Thanks for your help a few months back. This year I made 14 puddings to your wonderful recipe.

The gluten free flour I used was bought from my local Health food Store: F.G.Roberts Gluten Free Plain Flour. Made in Australia. www.soyproducts.com.au. It says the ingredients are Maize starch, Tapioca starch, Soy flour and Rice Flour. The puddings (I made 6 gluten free) were magnificent. I also used gluten free breadcrumbs from my Health Food store.

Nicola
Margarita Chetcuti
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1st timer
Reply #44 on : Sun December 23, 2007, 19:23:07
Hello Paul - thanks for the fab recipe. I made your Christmas Pudding for the first time this year. I was rapt when my butcher provided the suet for free. It froze very well and was very easy to grate - not too hard. I also used a slow cooker overnight instead of the saucepan and it worked a treat. Well done
Linda Marais
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CHRISTMAS PUDDING!!!
Reply #43 on : Sat December 22, 2007, 07:32:54
I think your site is great!! How nice that a list of ingredient substitutes is supplied. Here in wonderful sunny South Africa, we don't do much cooking with suet and it is hard to come by.
This year my family will eat Christmas Pudding par excellence!!!
Katie Carter
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Search for a Dickens Pudding
Reply #42 on : Sat December 08, 2007, 16:41:10
I got the grand idea a few years ago to host a Christmas dinner - Charles Dickens style! I scoured the internet for old recipes, but one thing we HAD to have was a great Christmas pudding. This recipe had everyone begging for more, so much that the Dickens feast has become a yearly tradition! Thanks!
Paula McGee
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Pudding
Reply #41 on : Thu November 29, 2007, 23:32:37
I made your pudding last year and I have to tell you that it was fabulous! I've never made it before, but am committed to making it each year. We all loved it. Thank you so much for the detailed recipe and instructions which helped me greatly.

Merry Christmas from New York
Paula McGee
Claire Banham
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Individual Christmas Puddings
Reply #40 on : Tue November 27, 2007, 15:24:01
Hello,
I was thinking of making individual christmas puddings (using the pudding cloth method) and giving them out as presents this year.
If I rigged it up, so I could cook all ten at once - I'm assuming I still need to cook for the full 8 hours... or because they are each smaller, would they dry out???
Regards,
Claire
Gwen
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grating the suet
Reply #39 on : Sun November 11, 2007, 11:30:18
I have successfully made this recipe and a fairly similar one published by Stephanie Alexander. I would make one suggestion on method, after grating my fingers along with the suet more than once!
I put the breadcrumbs (made from my own bread), flour and suet in the food processor and mixed them until it resembled a mix of very assorted colour crumbs. Then proceeded with the usual method. Saved some time and gave a more ven blend to the suet with the other dry ingredients.
admin
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Re:
Reply #38 on : Fri November 02, 2007, 13:48:23
Name: Jacinta
Email: jarich@jarich.*.*
Subject: Janine Dickens' Boil in the Bag method
Message:
My grandmother used to make pudding in a bag. She had a pudding bowl, but liked the roundness she got from the bag. Janine suggests unwrapping the pudding only minutes after the initial cook, and serving straight away. My grandmother used to do the opposite. She'd make the pudding in October, in the bag, and after the 6-8 hour boiling she'd hang it up in a covered but airy part of the house until Christmas. The calico would dry out pretty quickly and the pudding kept perfectly (one could argue that the time left sitting after the first cook is the most important bit!) Small spots of green mould did appear some years, but they never discoloured the thick coating of flour and we never noticed any effect on the pudding either.

Of course, on Christmas day we'd dunk the pudding back into the pot to boil (reheat) for two hours and serve after Christmas lunch. The thick flour coating generally stayed on the cloth, but any extra bits peeled off almost like rubber from around the shiny black pudding.
Anonymous
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Re:
Reply #37 on : Thu November 01, 2007, 18:27:43
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Love the pudding recipe though. I've been making this with great success since 2001 or 2002. I still use the old recipe with "mixed spice"; but as I too live in Melbourne that's not so hard to find. :)

Paul says; thanks for your kind words about the pudding, now if only I knew how to fix the css !!!
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Kerri
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Christmas Pudding
Reply #36 on : Tue September 25, 2007, 15:09:15
We made your pudding for Christmas Pudding for our Christmas in July this year. I had never made one before so I was a bit scared but it was incredibley easy and absolutely beautiful!! I bought a Bakers Secret pudding tin with lid at General Trader for about $25 and it worked well.
I've marked my diary to make it again 6 weeks before Christmas.
Thanks for a great recipe!
janice dickson
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Easy Christmas Pudding (Readers recipe)
Reply #35 on : Mon June 25, 2007, 16:18:40
(PLEASE SEE Paul's notes at end of recipe)
To save lots of trouble making a traditional Christmas Pudding, I use the following recipe adaptation of the famous Scottish Clootie Dumpling. This one is made in the Microwave and I can highly recommend it.

Into a saucepan place :
4 ozs brown sugar
8 ozs margarine
6 ozs sultanas
4 ozs raisins
4 ozs glace cherries (real ones)
2 ozs mixed peel
2 ozs flaked almonds
1 heap teaspoon cinnamon
1 heap teaspoon mixed spice
1/2 pint cold water
Stir well. Bring to boil & simmer 5 mins.

In a large bowl place :
8 ozs plain flour
2 eggs beaten with 1 tablespoon brandy
Before adding the hot mixture - add 1 heaped teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda.
Add the hot mixture into the bowl - the mix will begin to foam up. Mix it well.
Pour the mixture into a prepared pudding bowl
which is lined with glad wrap.
Cook in a 750w microwave for 9 minutes. (Adjust cooking time to suit microwave)
Leave to cool slightly for 5 mins then turn out onto a serving plate. Can be flamed with brandy if desired or dusted with castor sugar.
Paul's notes; Thanks Janice for your recipe, It is IMPORTANT to note that the pudding made with this recipe will be TOTALLY different to the recipe on this site.
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Charlotte
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Re:
Reply #34 on : Fri May 11, 2007, 04:08:39
Thank you so much for such comprehensive info about Christmas Pudding!
Barbara Paterson
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Candied Peel Recipe
Reply #33 on : Sun January 28, 2007, 16:12:10
Dear Paul,

I made your candied peel recipe to use in a French fruit cake. It was delicious! Unfortunately I stored the remainder of the peel I made in the cupboard in an airtight container and it started to go mouldy. So, thought I would warn those in a hot climate to either use it or store it in a cooler place. Do you have any recipes to use up the lovely syrup from the peel recipe?

Kind regards,
Barbara
Brian Jones
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I long missed my Grandma's Christmas Pudding.
Reply #32 on : Tue January 23, 2007, 09:43:30
Name: Brian Jones
Email: brian@vianet.ca
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Hi Paul,
I long missed my Grandma's Christmas Pudding, which I haven't had the pleasure of for 25 years since she passed on. Last year I decided to try making a pudding myself, hoping not to come close to hers but just to remind me of it in some small way.
Luckily, your recipe was the one I chose after perusing the WEB for awhile. On Christmas Day, my family reluctantly agreed to try a sample and everyone was blown away! My sister said it was even better than my dear old Grandma's and although I don't agree it certainly brought back some great memories. I also saved a bowl for my father-in-law who has also missed his Christmas pudding since his mother passed away and he too thought it may have topped hers.
As my wife and I alternate Christmas between our families and we won't be with mine this year, I've been requested to send along the pudding anyways, which makes for double the work, as my father-in-law has insisted that I won't be welcome in their home without a pudding!
Great recipe' and a great website. Incidentally, I made mine in a slow cooker, filling it partially with water in which I partially submerged the pudding bowl.
Joyce Parkhurst
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A homemade trivet?
Reply #31 on : Tue January 23, 2007, 09:40:29
Dear Paul,
for a homemade trivet I found that the rings used for large mouth canning jars work really well. I also use them under roasts.
Megan
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Warning, boil in the bag may not be sucessful!
Reply #30 on : Tue January 23, 2007, 09:34:11
Hi Paul - I have been making your pudding for a couple of years now. Thank you for a WONDERFUL recipe.
Anyway, I just wanted to give you some feedback on the "boil in the bag" instructions listed on the site, which I attempted to try this year.
THEY WERE A DISASTER! With your recipe, what I wound up with was a suet-caked ball with falling apart mixture inside it! It appears this method seperates the two parts. Anyway, tragically I have had to start the whole thing again from scratch.
Just some feedback. So you know.
Thanks again.
Megan
ANSWER;
It may be that you didn't leave the pudding to dry, it needs to be hung up until the cloth has dried throughly. trhis generally will ensure that the pudding remains in one piece. Paul
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Maria Print
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The Canadian Pudding
Reply #29 on : Tue January 23, 2007, 09:31:10
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Email: scooby17@mts.net
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This is just a little note to go in your pudding traditions.My Mum makes her christmas pud every year and it is delicious,but this year i have to have a go at making it as i now live in Canada and mum is in england,anyway when we where little mum use to get us to stir the pudding and make a wish and when we had our pudding after dinner on christmas day she use to hide a sixpence,then it went to five pence peice wrapped up in greaseproof paper,so we could find it,ahh the joys of christms childhood.Oh well i will have to have a go at making it myself though it will never be as yummy as mums.
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