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Oct. 29th, 2007
I just discovered I am about 400 gs short of the dried fruit for my pudding. I'll admit though, I'm not so crash hot on the sultanas and raisins in pudding, since most of the puddings I have had would have very little else in them. So thankfully, Grocery Zone can fulfil that lack for me.
:-)
This is the recipe I used last year to rave reviews. We had three puddings out of that batch, one was a bit burnt on the bottom but I had two large pots and one smaller pot, so I guess we can see why that happened! This year I am going to make one big one, since I said I would do the pudding for Mum's side of the family, and I have enough big pots for that. I hope. :-)
( Flamin' Chef's PUdding Recipe )
I'll admit, the main reason why I picked this recipe was the line "...or you may use 1.8 kilos of dried fruit." Which meant last year I raided Kakulas Sister and grabbed handfuls of random dried fruit and weighed them all up until I had about 2 kilos ish. (I like dried fruit, OK? *grin*) and definitely NOT 500gs of raisins, sultanas or currants. There's so much better out there for goodness' sake! And dried figs. There has to be dried figs. This is not an OR option. And glace ginger. But anyway. 1.8 kilos of dried fruit. And it was the best damned pudding I have ever tasted. Oh, and 200grams of mixed peel? WTF's with that? Who actually enjoys eating mixed peel?? Yuck. I figure if you don't want to munch on it before, why would you want to munch on it after it's been boiled for hours in a sack?
Oh, and I am completely slack on the "fresh" breadcrumbs, too. Fresh? It's going to be BOILED for EIGHT HOURS in a SACK. If it doesn't get enough moisture then, well.... So anyway. I used dried last year. And guess what? I'll be using dried again this year. Nyer.
:-)
:-)
This is the recipe I used last year to rave reviews. We had three puddings out of that batch, one was a bit burnt on the bottom but I had two large pots and one smaller pot, so I guess we can see why that happened! This year I am going to make one big one, since I said I would do the pudding for Mum's side of the family, and I have enough big pots for that. I hope. :-)
( Flamin' Chef's PUdding Recipe )
I'll admit, the main reason why I picked this recipe was the line "...or you may use 1.8 kilos of dried fruit." Which meant last year I raided Kakulas Sister and grabbed handfuls of random dried fruit and weighed them all up until I had about 2 kilos ish. (I like dried fruit, OK? *grin*) and definitely NOT 500gs of raisins, sultanas or currants. There's so much better out there for goodness' sake! And dried figs. There has to be dried figs. This is not an OR option. And glace ginger. But anyway. 1.8 kilos of dried fruit. And it was the best damned pudding I have ever tasted. Oh, and 200grams of mixed peel? WTF's with that? Who actually enjoys eating mixed peel?? Yuck. I figure if you don't want to munch on it before, why would you want to munch on it after it's been boiled for hours in a sack?
Oh, and I am completely slack on the "fresh" breadcrumbs, too. Fresh? It's going to be BOILED for EIGHT HOURS in a SACK. If it doesn't get enough moisture then, well.... So anyway. I used dried last year. And guess what? I'll be using dried again this year. Nyer.
:-)
Feeling Virtuous
Oct. 29th, 2007 02:26 pmI have had decaf coffee all day long, for lunch I had fresh fruit with natural yoghurt and honey, plus I made no-knead bread for our contribution to dinner at Mums.
I feel very virtuous indeedy.
:-)
I feel very virtuous indeedy.
:-)