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QUOTE (Jillian_10 @ 22/12/2012, 10:27 AM)  Christmas pudding is great. My grandmother would make two in September - one for Christmas, one for my grandfathers birthday next September. You cut a super thin slice and serve with whatever you think tastes good. Whipped cream, custard, or my personal favourite, brandy butter, which also tastes excellent with pancakes. Not in our house! Thick wedges with an ocean of brandy custard. Mum makes three every year (one each for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year) to Grandma's recipe in about September and does her traditional panic as to whether they will be up to scratch. Of course they always are. |
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I love Christmas pudding.
Mainly as a vessel for my dad's brandy sauce though.  you should definitely not drive after consumption though  Yum served with dads brandy sauce, cream AND icecream!! |
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I love love love Xmas pudding. So much in fact, that I make either a steamed or a boiled pudding every year- it depends on which one I feel like, and I always make it big.
No thin slices here. A big chunk gets cut. Hot pudding and cold custard is the best 
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23/12/2012, 11:26 AM
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I don't eat it, but most of my family do. Usually with custard.
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23/12/2012, 12:07 PM
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We get Lions Christmas Cake, which isn't the same but close enough.
Mostly we are too stuffed to eat it on Christmas Day (what's left of it by then anyway  ) but it does get eaten. I prefer mine with warm custard, which I make from my grandma's recipe. |
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I LOVE CHristmas pudding, with loads of cream. Am going to make my own next year.
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Yum! I like it with custard - warm, not cold.
I hate Christmas cake though. My grandfather ate it with cheese! |
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Oh I love a good Christmas pudding with a big dollop of custard! And yes it has to be warm. and if it's doused in some brandy, even better!
My grandmother used to make them with a dollar coin in each slice. |
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In our family no one under the age of 40 will touch it. It's like a generational line has been drawn for pudding-eaters and non-pudding eaters. So we always have two desserts, one for the old people and one for the young-uns
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I do quite happily in Ireland, but I couldn't imagine it in Sydney heat
 My best advice would very to keep it till next winter and have a Christmas in July type meal where you will appreciate it much more  Oh, and brandy butter is All The Good Things on Christmas pud 
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