Right, please help me avoid giving the whole family food poisoning this year - i gave my pud 8 hrs on the stove yesterday. Turned it off at midnight, drained the water out of the pan and left it to cool till the morning as i was too knackered to sort it out then and there. I didn't think to take the lid off and check it was thoroughly cooked. Big mistake. This morning i finally stumbled in to the kitchen to assess the situation, only to find that instead of being a dark, dark brown, cooked all the way through, it's lightish in places, and i can still see raw suet - oh dear!
so what do i do now it's been left to cool over night (not in the fridge, i might add)? Stick it back on the stove for another 3 hours and hope for the best? or just chuck the whole thing and give up? Bear in mind that if i reheat it now, i'll need to reheat it again on xmas morning and i'm just wondereing how the eggs will respond. Dp thinks it'll be fine as all the booze and sugar will cancel out any nasties, but i'm not so sure. what do you think???