I love a good homemade English Christmas pudding just like my dear mum used
to make. It's a lot of work and should be steamed a month or more prior to
Christmas Day then re-heated for the traditional dessert. . . . . . along with little
individual mince pies and lots of rum or brandy butter, yum!
I didn't make a 'pud' this year, finding instead an imported one from England at
World Market. Hopefully it will taste good. I will however be making and baking
my own mince pies a little closer to Christmas Eve.
At World Market I also picked up this jar of English Christmas Preserve made
with plums, port and silver stars. Very pretty, plummy and delicious!
This morning I was up early and made buttermilk biscuits - one each for
breakfast, the remainder stashed in the freezer for later.
Well away now from Christmas reds and thought of tasty food. I'm off to plant
my last batch of daffodils and jonquils awaiting in the potting shed. . . . . . . . before
days of rain yet again. These will go under the fig tree and hopefully bloom come Springtime.
Enjoy this busy run up to Christmas week.
Enjoy this busy run up to Christmas week.
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We like Christmas pudding very much. And that jar plum preserve looks delicious as do your scones on that gorgeous red plate.
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Brenda
Have never tasted Christmas pudding. I may be missing something good. Odd, too, since so many of the family hails from England. Oh well. Glad that you were able to find some and I hope that it is almost as good as your own. Love your very Christmasy photos.
ReplyDeleteVery patriotic doing that but I would think getting one from M7S here in the UK would be more like it. My wife make superb mince pies useing Tesco's fiest mincemeat, we also have one of their Christmas puds because we really like them. Merry Christmas
ReplyDeleteI have never had Christmas pudding. That plum preserve looks yummy! Have a Merry Christmas Mary. Hugs to you and Bob.
ReplyDeleteI like the look of your scones on the red plate; they are so tempting!
ReplyDeleteOh my, Mary...those scones. And the jam looks delicious. I'm wondering what the silver stars are, though.
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy the next few days left 'til Christmas,]. Busy, busy.
Hi Deb, the tiny silver stars are made of something edible. . . . . . .they look really pretty in the rich plum/port jam!
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Happy Christmas.
One of us really enjoys Christmas Pudding and the other one detests it. It's the detest one who makes things, so the other one is out of luck! Plum preserves made with silver stars? Sounds beautiful. Buttermilk biscuits are the best!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your countdown to Christmas. I'm mostly counting down to Friday when school is out. Why we go so late is a mystery!
ahhh. your photos are amazing...magazine worthy, really.
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Beautiful photos, Mary. The Christmas preserve looks so delicious, I will seek something similar. We have family coming to stay a few days for the Season. I have made an English Christmas pudding, boiled in a cloth to the old family recipe - in fact only learnt to do this after my children grew up, because until then my late mother-in-law always made one for us all! Must say yours does look very appealing too. The buttermilk biscuits look delicious too - it is not a recipe we see in Australia, but I enjoy them when travelling to America.
ReplyDeleteSO, how was the pud? I didn't ahve any this year as no one to enjoy it with who likes it - not even my kids like it even though I tried my bet to help them along there. Ha. Well, that is, I also bought ones every now and then when able to find them. The Christmas Preserve sounds utterly incredible. Yum. (Hmmm... methinks I do rather say that too much around your "home" here, don't I?!)
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