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Festive steamed fruit dessert
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Difficulty:
easy
Preparation:
30 min.
Preparation
ready in 3 hrs 30 mins
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Ingredients
for
6
- For the pudding
- 1 cup Golden raisins
- 1 cup Currants
- ⅔ cup Prune (chopped)
- ⅛ cup Rum
- 1 Apple (peeled and grated)
- ⅔ cup mixed Citrus peels
- ¼ cup soft butter
- 1 ½ cups fresh breadcrumbs
- ½ cup flour
- ¾ cup ground Hazelnuts
- 0.333 cup brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- For the cream
- 1 cup cream (at least 30% fat)
- ½ Vanilla bean (seeds scrapped out)
- 3 Tbsps powdered sugar
- ⅛ cup Brandy
Preparation steps
1.
Heat the oven to the lowest temperature and grease a pudding basin.
2.
Pour hot water over the sultanas and the currants and drain. Mix in the prunes, rum, apple and the mixed peel. Add the butter, breadcrumbs, flour, nuts, sugar, eggs, cloves and cinnamon and knead into a dough. Place the mixture in the pudding basin and cover with aluminium foil.
3.
Place in a deep baking dish filled with water and place on the oven rack. Cook for around 3 hours. Keep in the closed basin until serving.
4.
To make the brandy cream, whip together the cream, vanilla seeds, icing sugar and the brandy. Carefully knock the pudding out of the bowl and serve with the cream.
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