hi guys Hobey well so as we come towards
stir up Sunday and Christmas I'm gonna
give you what you've all been asking for
which is my Christmas pudding recipe
which I love and I think it's delicious
and that little bit lighter so it all
starts over here these beautiful dried
fruits so 150 grams of beautiful dried
cranberries raisins and then medjool
dates which I absolutely love
150 grams again squeeze the little pips
out the module dates will give you the
sweetness they're fantastic kind of
sticky toffee flavor just chop through
them till nice and fine in they go as
well
apricots chopped those up 150 grams of
pecan nuts crumble them in your hand
really nice one of my secret ingredients
is the crystallized ginger finely sliced
those that incredible fresh flavor of
ginger and it just smells amazing for
the next secret ingredient get a small
sprig of rosemary remove the stalk and
then finely slice the rosemary it works
incredibly well with fruit then the
flavor of Christmas itself Clementi
lightly grate the zest possesses full of
all the oils and the flavors in with the
juice now
let's get into some of the sort of
structural ingredients that hold it
together first up I've got 75 grams of
good quality breadcrumbs okay this is
gonna make it lighter 150 grams of plain
flour go straight in and then 150 grams
of suet
now you could use butter but I prefer to
use so it you get a different texture
really scrunch it together the great
thing about this job is you can do it in
advance it's a lot of love just sitting
there waiting to be cooked on the big
day so it's really really nice now once
you've mixed up beautifully we can add
the two last ingredients that will bring
it together to be that amazing pudding
and that will be one free-range organic
egg bone and then two hundred
millilitres of lovely organic milk get
it in there they call it stir up Sunday
because you're supposed to use a spoon
but this is a Jamie Oliver recipe so
it's not stir up Sunday
it's scrunch up Sunday come on and here
we go there is our beautiful pudding
mixture so get yourself a pudding Bowl
and butter quite generously sort of
cakey because that is gonna stop your
pudding from sticking it's also going to
naturally based it's gonna
sweet and delicious take the filling
here and I'm going to dump it in make
sure it's nice and level so that you
don't get a wonky pudding very nice next
up two very important parts of the
procedure first of all we make a
cartouche take a square fold it in half
fold in half again and again and again
and again and then very simply cut your
little hat so once you got that on then
we want to get two bits of tinfoil place
it on top go around the rim with some
string do a double knot and tie it as
tight as you can and then you're left
with this overhang go around the other
side for making a little handle there we
go but in goes in to the water the water
is halfway up the pan cook this for four
hours
on a medium lows of simmer right and
we'll check it every hour and top up the
water if we need it that steaming action
is going to give you lightness it's
going to give me moisture it's gonna be
amazing right four hours a little clean
down and I'll show you what to do next
so beautiful people for festive hours
have gone before us and now we are left
with this the great Christmas pudding
but let's serve this beautiful thing I
mean come on look at that cut the string
off get rid of that get a nice little
cake dish or plate put it on top get
yourself a cloth hold the bowl and the
plate and simply flip it over and if
you're lucky you should have the most
beautiful Christmas pretty it smells
incredible all we need to do now is
flame and flame safely so you ready for
this
kill the lights and let's do this safely
so now let's show you how to flame it
safely go to the lovely little alcohol
couple of your grand netting your dad
take one of his finest Bourbons cognacs
whiskey's Gator a pan and get it on a
medium heat just for a minute or so put
a good slush in the pan and then just
anger it towards the flame or light it
with a match
be careful we do not want Christmas to
end in tears gently pour on top of the
Christmas pudding the alcohol is burning
away and you're being left with the
incredible flavor of Christmas and this
my friends
when you think wish you a Merry
Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas
we wish you a Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year don't burn the house down
the flavor from that burn of alcohol
will be phenomenal right let's get the
lights back up as if by magic
okay so let's cut a portion of this
gorgeous Christmas pudding look at that
come on so you can tell if you look at
the texture that it is beautiful I'm
going for cream and there you go mmm my
little tweaks I hope you like because
it's that little bit tastier and that
little bit of lighter hallelujah
guys good luck enjoy it and I hope you
have a wonderful Christmas
take care