Festive fruit pudding

Recipes / Appetiziers

This festive fruit pudding is spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, raisins and apricots.

Recipe «Festive fruit pudding» presented in category Recipes / Appetiziers, to prepare this dish you will need no more 5:00 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 2 cups mixed fruit, 1 1/2 cups dried apricots, chopped, 1 1/2 cups raisins, 1/4 cup orange juice, 250g butter, room temperature , 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup plain flour, sifted, 1 tsp baking powder , 1 tsp ground nutmeg, 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon, 2 cups fresh breadcrumbs, Finely grated rind of 1 orange, 4 eggs, Custard, to serve.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups mixed fruit 
  • 1 1/2 cups dried apricots, chopped 
  • 1 1/2 cups raisins 
  • 1/4 cup orange juice 
  • 250g butter, room temperature 
  • 1 cup brown sugar 
  • 1 cup plain flour, sifted 
  • 1 tsp baking powder 
  • 1 tsp ground nutmeg 
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 
  • 2 cups fresh breadcrumbs 
  • Finely grated rind of 1 orange 
  • 4 eggs 
  • Custard, to serve 

Instructions

  1. Combine fruit, orange rind and juice in bowl. Cover and stand overnight to soak.
  2. Grease and line base of a 2-litre pudding basin. Using electric beaters, beat butter and sugar together until pale and creamy. Add eggs one at a time beating after each addition. Stir in fruit. Fold in flour with baking powder and spices. Fold in breadcrumbs.
  3. Spoon into prepared basin, packing down lightly as you go. Cover with a circle of greased baking paper and two sheets of foil. Tie securely around rim of basin with kitchen string. Stand pudding on a trivet inside a large saucepan or stock pot. Fill with enough hot water to come two-thirds up side of basin.
  4. Cover and cook for 5 hrs on low heat, topping up with boiling water as needed. Remove basin from pan, cool completely and store in fridge until Christmas day.
  5. To reheat, boil pudding using above method for 2 hrs. Serve wedges with custard.