Christmas Pudding - take it or leave it?

[humbersloop]

Did you make yours by Easter at the latest, or will you be in the scrum at Waitrose if Heston's doing one again this year? Or Aldi, if you've got any sense

Brandy butter, ice cream or cream? Leftovers fried or eaten cold??

Recipes welcome, tia.

[China Doll]

Type Your Answer Here...I like hot christmas pudding with brandy butter. I don't make it thought, just buy a little one.

[sherrardk]

No one here likes it so its shop-bought trifle. I like it with white sauce (don't know how to make it though - think it's just a sweet bechamel sauce but wouldn't know who to ask about it).

[237SJ]

<<Take it or leave it>> Leave it - definitely!

[rockyracoon]

I love it with loads if double cream, I've got one left over from a Fortnum & Mason's hamper which we got last year, any leftovers are getting wrapped in puff pastry, with more cream.

[carrot99]

Leave it every time, yuck and chuck the mince pies out as well while you're at it...

[mazie]

Figgy Pudding for us this year. But I do like a good Christmas pudding with custard

[zebo]

Like it and usually make my own but the pressure cooker's kaput so may have to buy one. My recipe makes two, so I used to make it every other years, one stayed in the back of the fridge for a year.
James Martin makes white sauce by thickening cream with cornflour and adding brandy, works a treat.

[mazie]

Made Whisky and Walnut mincemeat for the mince pies.....

[Tilly2]

Not my dish of pudding either. Would prefer Key Lime Pie, thanks.

[Caribeing]

Leave it, enjoy all food except Christmas Pudding and faggots

[sherrardk]

And we don't have a Christmas cake either - vile stuff!

[Kiki-frog]

Leave it! It's very nice, but just too much after turkey and the trimmings. I like to serve it on Christmas Eve, but after Christmas lunch have a choccy yule log with ice cream.

[gness]

Love Christmas pudding...made or bought. Late OH hated it...kids hated it. If. and that's a big if, I remarry it will only be to a man who loves Christmas pud.

[humbersloop]

heston's not getting many takers

faggots? faggots!!?

[Maydup]

I'm pleased to discover that I'm not alone in disliking Christmas Pudding, Christmas Cake and mince pies. Maybe our palates have changed at last as these are all too rich and heavy for me.

The Christmas Pudding was of course Plum pudding originally and went on to represent luxury with its sugar, spices, alcohol, and off course heavy heavy beef suet, but it is all very Victorian now and best left in the museum!

[Purple_Popple]

Bleh bleh bleh, to Xmas Pud, xmas cake & Mince Pies. Give me a sherry trifle any day :)

[Caribeing]

Hi humbersloop just mentioning food hates faggots as in Mr Brains faggots haven't tried them but they look awful OH likes them

[humbersloop]

thanks mary, I'd never seen them featured on a festive menu is all

[plautus]

Leave it, definitely. It may be fine for the poor and hungry, but when you've just pigged out on a plateful of turkey "with all the trimmings" (God, how I loathe that phrase), the last thing you want is a great lump of stodge down your guts so you spend the next three hours deciding whether to take indigestion remedies, break wind or go for a good, old-fashioned dump. Anyway, it puts you off your tea. Nuclear missiles are targeted directly on the first person to respond, "...but it's Christmas!!!!"

[plautus]

On the subject of faggots, it has been an ethereal dream of mine, if I had the money, to go the the USA, enter a supermarket, walk around looking suitably lost till the clerk says, "Can I help you sir?", to which I could reply, "Oh, yes, thank you, I'm looking for some faggots for later tonight. Do you have any in store?"