Add a kick to your Christmas spread this year with this tipsy royal pudding recipe. Source: Getty
It’s no secret that our Majesty likes a tipple (even if royal doctors have reportedly counselled her to cut back on the booze of late).
So it’s no surprise then that when royal chefs shared their annual Christmas pudding recipe this week on the Royal Family Twitter page in honour of Stir-up Sunday, it contained rum, brandy and beer.
Stir-up Sunday is typically the last Sunday before the season of Advent when many festive season traditionalists get to work on making their Christmas pudding.
This year’s royal recipe comprises 13 ingredients to symbolise Christ and the 12 apostles, but it has swapped out the more traditional port in favour of beer.
The Royal Family’s official website has revealed previously that our Monarch presents a Christmas pudding to every member of her staff, often from Harrods or Fortnum & Mason, in a tradition started by her grandfather, George V.
1. Combine all dry ingredients 2. Stir them together 3. Add the eggs and liquid 4. Stir everything up 5. Grease your pudding basins 6. Press the cake mix into the basins 7. Cover with a circle of parchment paper 8. Cover basins with muslin or foil, and place puddings into a deep saucepan 9. Fill up with water up to three quarters of pudding basin height 10. Cover with foil 11. Steam for six hours refilling water if necessary 12. Once cooled, wrap puddings well and keep in cool, dry and dark place until Christmas
On Christmas Day, reheat your pudding for 3-4 hours. Remove from the basin using a rounded knife or palette knife, flip out onto a plate, and serve with brandy sauce and cream or custard.
1. Combine all dry ingredients \n2. Stir them together \n3. Add the eggs and liquid \n4. Stir everything up \n5. Grease your pudding basins \n6. Press the cake mix into the basins \n7. Cover with a circle of parchment paper \n8. Cover basins with muslin or foil, and place puddings into a deep saucepan \n9. Fill up with water up to three quarters of pudding basin height \n10. Cover with foil \n11. Steam for six hours refilling water if necessary \n12. Once cooled, wrap puddings well and keep in cool, dry and dark place until Christmas
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On Christmas Day, reheat your pudding for 3-4 hours. Remove from the basin using a rounded knife or palette knife, flip out onto a plate, and serve with brandy sauce and cream or custard.
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She would buy them a Christmas pudding each from Tesco, having previously purchased them from Fortnum & Mason but switching to the popular supermarket as buying 1,500 puddings is quite the expense.
It was common practice to include small silver coins in the pudding mixture, which could be kept by the person whose serving included them. The usual choice was a silver threepence or a sixpence.
However, it was the Victorians who fine tuned the recipe into the Christmas pudding many of us enjoy today. A Christmas pudding should have 13 ingredients – that represent Jesus and the 12 disciples.
Black pudding is a savoury dish - it's a type of blood sausage made from pig's or cow's blood, suet and oatmeal or barley groats, whereas Christmas/figgy pudding is a sweet dish made with dried fruit, honey, sugar, flour, eggs and alcohol (rum or brandy usually).
When it's time to treat herself, McGrady revealed that all the Queen wants is a piece of chocolate biscuit cake. The cake is reportedly made in-house (or, more appropriately, in-palace), and Her Majesty consumes one slice per day.
The queen had a legendary love of sweets, especially anything chocolate. She especially enjoyed a classic icebox-style cake using simple tea biscuits suspended in an egg-enriched ganache and then chilled before coated in a thin layer of chocolate.
Christmas Pudding (also known as plum pudding or figgy pudding) is a dish as famous as it is misunderstood. In America, Christmas Pudding (also known as plum pudding or figgy pudding) is a dish as famous as it is misunderstood.
It is believed that a Christmas pudding must contain thirteen ingredients. These ingredients each represent Jesus and each of his twelve disciples. Traditionally, brandy is poured over the Christmas pudding and set aflame before serving. The flames are believed to represent Christ's passion.
It is key that every member of the family gives the pudding mixture a stir and makes a wish at the same time. Traditionally, a silver sixpence was stirred in to bring whoever found the coin on Christmas Day wealth and good luck in the year to come.
Since traditional Christmas pudding is made with a variety of dried fruits and nuts along with eggs and suet (animal fat)- the high content of the liquor helps it taste better and better over time, with no risk of spoiling even two years after they are made!
The traditional Christmas pudding is therefore by no means a low fat product. Further, the 14% fat from the suet is pure saturated fat, which has been recognized as a contributor to the suffering of high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. The traditional recipe provided also contains a high sugar content.
Like haggis, Stornoway Black Pudding is a U.K. favorite that contains sheep's lungs. This ingredient makes it illegal to import into the United States, despite it being a regular menu item across the pond.
It wasn't until the mid-seventeenth century that this pudding became associated with Christmas which led to it being banned in 1647 by Oliver Cromwell who believed that it and other festive traditions led to drunken revelry instead of sombre reflection.
Conclusion: Christmas puddings contain ethanol that does not all evaporate during the cooking process. However, the rise in BAC after ingestion of a typical slice of Christmas pudding was negligible and unlikely to affect work performance or safety or impair a health care worker's ability to make complex decisions.
As the story of the daily chocolate biscuit cake might suggest, the Queen loved her chocolate. And when she wasn't able to indulge in her absolute favourite, McGrady prepared her a more portable one: a whiskey chocolate mousse.
Waitrose is the only supermarket in the UK with a Royal Warrant, Hello reports, meaning it has been approved to supply goods to Buckingham Palace. The warrant is so prestigious, it only lasts five years in total, before it has to go through the process of renewal to be approved again.
Each December, Queen Elizabeth gives each member of her staff around 1,500 Christmas puddings to share between them, according to the official royal website. Every gift comes with a little extra something: a greeting card from the Queen herself.
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