Christmas Pudding?
 

Does anyone make their own or just buy one already made?

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We got ours online from the UK. We had a "fancy" Canadian one last year ... not doing that again.

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Up until about 4 years ago used to make one every year. Last one, pulled out christmas day and it had turned out shit and we had to bin it.:( Had to pinch the kids trifle :(

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We usually have Bûche de Noël laced with Calva.

HTH.

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Tried a "plum" pudding from the supermarket but it wasn't that great. An M&S pudding from the British Shop was better but 3 times the price.

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Which website did you use?

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Bettys. It's not exactly a cheap option.

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Do they deliver to Canada?

Edit to say, by looking at the website they do but like everything here its not easy. Canada – (From November 2010 all parcels over $60.00 CAD in value delivered to Canada by courier will be subject to duty and taxes.)

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Yes. It's pricey, but worth it if you like a decent christmas pud, which I do.

(and yeah, you've got to keep your order under $60 - ours came ordinary air-mail).

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I thought it didn't look too bad...then I remembered it was ££ and not $$.

I was hoping M&S would do a xmas cake delivery but they don't seem to.

First year I was here I ordered one of Harrods' puds but it was no better than Sainsburys or Tesco.

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I know I've left it late but I do intend to make my own one. Using the recipe my Mum always used from her 1970's Cordon Bleu cookery course.

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Jamie Oliver's Nan's -it's easy to make and tastes amazing! We make it every year http://www.jamieoliver.com/forum/vie...php?pid=228336

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Thank you. :)

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My son is sending me one of these as part of my Christmas goodie box!!

Hope it's not a case of too high an expectation ...

J :)

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Surely your nan makes better xmas pudding than Jamie Olivers;)

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But you and your lot would naffing well confiscate it. :thumbdown:

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We just get one from the supermarket.

By that point in Xmas dinner no one really cares how it tastes, as long as it flambés nicely...

We do however make our own brandy butter to go on it, and that's what really counts.

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How do you do that? Do you mix it with old coffee ground or guinness?

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Mea culpa, that would be a typo. . Brandy Butter... as you were.

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I don't know why but my nan always called it hard sauce although it was essentially brandy butter. :confused:

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Mine too. I always understood it the same sense as hard liquor or (these days) hard lemonade. But nans are always a bit weird.

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Does anybody still put thruppeny bits or sixpences in their xmas puddings or do we now substitute those for nickels and dimes?

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I always have a little laugh when someone talks about mince pies.

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Nothing lass than a tooney and screw the dentists bills.

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A staple of nan's cuisine. And mincemeat pies at Christmas.

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I still have a small waitrose one from last Xmas, do you think it's ok to eat? It's sealed of course. I seem to recall that Xmas pud will keep for well over a year. Or is that wedding cake? Chucked the unconsumed packs of mince pies out in June, I'm not that tight.

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They may not ship them from M&S directly, but you should be able to order one from https://www.abitofhome.ca/marks-and-...ding-454g.html Only thing is, you have to buy $29 of goods before they bother shipping them to you. A few packs of Hob Nobs perhaps??

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As long as the pud has alcohol in it you should be fine.

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I have an old M and S one from last year. By the time it's been nuked in the microwave it will be fine.

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What is the fascination with Xmas pudding and Xmas cake?..both are disgusting..which is borne out by the fact nobody eats them except at Xmas..i prefer trifle thanks:thumbup:

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You should be posting in the forgive me i have sinned thread, cos it looks like you've gone native.

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Apparently there is quite the tradition in NA to openly hate fruit cake. Bloody homophobes. :thumbdown:

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i have never liked Xmas Pudding or Xmas cake, i cant stand mince pies either:thumbdown:

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I've used them a few times for a few treats. This year I used something called flowers and more (I think it was).

Trouble is, having ordered and received already, anything now would be for the cake only and for the ones I want it's about $60 or more by the time it's all added up.

Thanks anyway :)

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Why would you eat xmas cake when it's not xmas? :p

As a child I wasn't keen. I used to have the pud for the money and the cake because of the marzipan.

But then I discovered how nice the pud is with cream and a dessert wine and how well the cake (especially an M&S one with Brandy) goes with tea and coffee.

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This is my experience exactly! Only another 27 days to go !!

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Going to be in Cape Town for Christmas eating traditional dinner in 30deg heat! Somehow the pud lit up with brandy is not the same but at least we will have proper pud and cake. In 10 years I have not found a decent Christmas cake or pud here, until Costco opened last year and sold a very nice fruity Christmas cake! Our local supermarket (small Island chain) imports British food at this time of year, I have just stocked up on gravy granules, Masmade Marmalade (it is the pulp so you make up the marmalade) and Cadbury's chocolate! They have Cross & Blackwell Christmas puds available!

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To those who want a UK one as the Canadian made ones are probably shit to the BE members might I suggest these links

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...s-6276058.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...aste-test.html
http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipe...ing-taste-test
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...istmas-pudding

If after this you cant find one you like then maybe you dont deserve to be having one so nip out and get a Tim Horton festive donut instead :lol:

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We made a handful of them a couple of years ago and still have a couple left, maturing in the cold room and regularly soused with a bit more brandy just to make sure they don't go off.

Obviously, anybody who doesn't like Christmas pudding is a bit odd, especially with a decent spoonful or two of brandy butter to go with. My granddad introduced me to the best-ever Boxing Day treat, if there's any pud left over. Put it in the fridge overnight so it goes nice and firm, then slice quite thinly. Melt a decent dollop of brandy butter in a small frying pan and fry the pudding slices in it. As the sugar in the brandy butter caramelises, it coats the pudding in a rich, sticky, gooey layer of extra loveliness; left for just the right amount of time before eating it forms a sort of crackle toffee glaze. Serve with additional brandy butter or vanilla ice-cream. Mmmmmmm.

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Screw waiting till xmas Ive already had one bought from Sobeys. I have one from WalMart complete with a sachet of sauce which I suspect might be given a trial run tonight. Ive still got to visit Safeway, Canadian Superstore and a host of others that sell them. I dont care how crap or good they might taste or how much Rum I have to add to a sauce isnt it the partaking that is important and the testing to see which wins out.
I mean we take several vehicles for a test drive before settling so why not xmas puddings?