What alcohol do you use to light your xmas pudding??

[basementbear]

I was watching Nigella the other day and I'm sure she said she used vodka but I always thought it was brandy? Last year mine didn't light at all - think I must have bought the wrong sort of brandy. I hate xmas pudding myself and only bought a tiny one cos the DCs really wanted to see it go up in flames so they were very disappointed!! please help

Any alcohol should flame. Will be brandy on ours.

Brandy tastes nicer but you do need a fair glug of it to make it flame.

Just make sure you light the pudding and not the turkey .

Brandy
Make sure that you warm up the brandy in a LARGE spoon before setting fire to it as you pour it over the pudding (the alcohol needs to start evaporating so that it can catch fire)

Donk - I poured it straight on the pudding, maybe that is where I went wrong