I have just made my Christmas Pudding

[TitsalinaBumSquash]

I am feeling very tingly and fluffy for i have just finished my Christmas Pudding! It is now colled and stilling snugly in the cupboard, this weekend i am going to make Minemeat and Pickles.

Cooled, sitting and Mincemeat even.

omg! I now feel inadequate and must rush out and buy ingredients....

Are you going to feed it whisky or brandy?

I dont usualy make it until the end of October but i am feeling organized this year.

I must also buy one Nintendo DS next month and one in November so they dont run out Christams. (Just putting it here to remind myself)

I wonder how many people have hidden this thread?

I feed mine Rum every 3 weeks until Christmas, we eat it on Boxing day. I have spent many a year perfecting my recipe i am finally happy with it.

Yum. Might actually make mine this weekend though I was kidding about the rushing out to the shop.

having never made one before please could someone direct me to a tasty but simple one please?

Oooh i love christmas

Look here... it is my recipe on my very new blog, it looks like loads of ingredients but it is a case of chucking it all in.

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No no no you make the Christmas Pudding on Stir-Up Sunday, which is the last Sunday before Advent.

thanks tits

I find it doesn't have long enough to mature if i do it then, i make my first batch of Mince Pies on stir up Sunday.

No worries Jetcat. :)

WOW, thanks for sharing your recipe, might give it a go this year

Right I am going to be super organised and make mine this week too! Thanks titsalinabumsquash When are you making your cake?

I usually make it on the first week of October mainly becuase it my Nans birthday so i make 2 and she has one for a presant becuase she is a fruitcake fiend! :)

I don't ice it until later though becuase i feed the Ckae with alcahol usually Brandy.

i just love xmas..and these threads make me fell all the more excited !

I made my first Christmas puddings last year and they went down a storm. Glad to know I'm not the only one thinking ahead and planning when to make them. I can't do them stir-up Sunday as we're always home (in the States) visiting my family for Thanksgiving. So I want to make them early in anticipation of the Christmas season (and so I'm not running around like a maniac when we get back, two weeks before Christmas). I LOVE Christmas!

(Anyone know if it's easy to get homemade Christmas pudding and/or homemade mincemeat through US customs?)

What pickles do you make TitsalinaBumSquash?

I have just made a batch of Ginger, date and Apple Chutney which is really good with Cheese and cold meats.

I will also do a basic Tomato Chutney, a Cranberry and Blueberry Jam and a Chilli Jelly.

I usually make jars of Pickled Onions, preserved Lemons. I just need jars, i tried freecycle but no luck.

Have you got a foolproof cake recipe too titsalina?

Hve you got recipes for your chutneys Titsalina, they sound fab!

I have been making chutneys, pickled onions, pickled beetroot etc to put away for Christmas. PIL are getting a hamper of homemade stuff so have made extra chutney and jam for that. Need to make marmalade (with prepared oranges) next.

My ginger, date and apple chutney is on my blog (link further down) i will be adding more soon, im doing a lot of Panto rehersals at the moment. :)

I can't see your blog. Shouldn't it be underneath your pictures?

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No its not a Mumsnet Blog its my own blogspot one.

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