Worried about how the christmas pudding has cooked.
Asked on 12 Nov 2022 by Tripi23
I have a family recipe for a 1.2l Christmas pudding. It doesn’t use suet. Uses butter, flour, eggs, breadcrumbs amongst the usual ingredients. I am having an issue with the steaming. My aunt said to steam for 4 hours which I did although I did forget about it and didn’t top water up after 2 hours steaming (I remembered before this). When I checked it, it wasn’t remotely cooked. So I put it back on for 90 mins. The outside seems to be cooked from what I can tell, but the centre of the pudding still seems underdone. So I will put it on again for a little bit longer. Can I ruin it by over steaming? Any tips on getting the centre to cook? I have changed saucepans now - the one I currently have is slightly deeper so I am hoping that helps the centre to steam better than the other one.
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Hello,
We steam Delia’s pudding recipe for 8 hours and never let it boil dry.
But as we also steam 1lb puddings for 8 hours think it’s unlikely that your pudding will suffer if steamed for longer.
When it’s completely cold the cooked pudding should be dark and firm. If not, something is wrong. Perhaps with the quantities??
Hope yours is ok.
Kind regards
Lindsey