A glorious plum pudding for Christmas from The Way To Cook by Julia Child

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  • ashallen on January 01, 2022

    This was my first homemade plum pudding, so I'm not a connoisseur, but I thought it was delicious. Julia Child says to let it rest at least 1 week before eating, but of course I tried some immediately. Lots of bright, raisin-y flavors which, after 10 days rest, morphed into deeper, more date/chocolate-like flavors. I didn't flambe the pudding but did feed it some dark rum while it was aging and that worked well. Very easy to mix together and, once you figure out a steaming set-up, easy to cook. I used a 7-cup container for steaming instead of 8 cups as specified in the recipe. That was a mistake since it was too small and allowed ~4 tbsp molten butter to ooze out of the container and into the steam bath pot during steaming. Fortunately there was enough butter in the pudding to begin with that it still came out super-rich and didn't seem to be missing anything. Great with vanilla ice cream!

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