English christmas pudding

4 servings
6 hours

Let's make pudding ingredients. The composition can be expanded, reduced or changed if desired and tasted. In some recipes, grated vegetables, fruits, fresh berries are added to the pudding, but this is a matter of taste. The main thing is the presence of dried fruits that need to be prepared in advance.

My dried fruits, let the water drain and soak them in an alcoholic drink, better in cognac, at night.

My walnuts, dry in the microwave and finely crush with a rolling pin or in a coffee grinder.

Put softened butter in a bowl. Add sugar. Beat them together until homogeneous.

Drive in the chicken eggs, whisk again with a mixer or hand whisk.

We dissolve honey in milk, if the honey is saccharized, it can be melted in a water bath, or mixed in warm milk and cooled.

We pour the honey-milk mixture into a bowl with egg-oil. We also pour vegetable oil there. Add a pinch of cinnamon and vanillin, ground almonds, ginger powder and salt. We pour in the sifted flour, mix the mass again, the dough should turn out in consistency like sour cream.

We rub the meat of white bread into crumbs, it is better to use yesterday's bread.

We put dried fruits soaked in cognac in the dough, the remains of cognac, in which dried fruits were soaked, pour there. Add bread crumbs, crushed walnuts. Stir the dough. It should be quite dense and dense.

We cover the refractory form with foil, lubricate it with butter.

Spoon the pudding mass. We tightly compress it with a spoon so that voids do not form inside.

Tighten the shape with foil on top. We put the form in a pan of boiling water. Water should cover the mold only a quarter of its height. We reduce the fire to a minimum and volume pudding for about 5 hours (depending on its size and the number of ingredients). Water periodically needs to be poured.

We take the pudding out of the mold, soak it with cognac. We leave it for a day in a cold place. Serve to the table, sprinkled with icing sugar. Enjoy your meal!