Inventing 'instant' Christmas Pudding (Making It Up As I Go - Without a Specific Recipe)

Today I'm feeling festive and I'm going to invent Christmas Pudding - already invented you say? That's never stopped me in the past. Normally Christmas pud is something that's made months in advance and matured. I'm going to make a delicious Christmas pudding that can be made and eaten the same day, just making it up as I go along (the extracted recipe from this dabbling is below).
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Extracted recipe:
Ingredients:
25g unsweetened dried cranberries
50g dried mixed fruit (raisins, sultanas, candied citrus peel)
30g walnuts, chopped
1 apple - grated with peel (about 70g grated fresh apple)
50g soft brown sugar
50g shredded suet
Grated zest (outer orange rind) of one large orange - ideally unwaxed
100g self raising flour
1 slice of bread (about 40g) cut or blended into chunky crumbs
50g cooked chestnuts, chopped
8 glace cherries (about 40g), quartered
50g grated carrot
70g thick cut orange marmalade
55g black treacle (substitute honey with a small amount of molasses - I used carob extract)
3 level teaspoons ground mixed spices (ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves)
100ml dark ale, stout or porter (or wine, or fruit juice, or milk etc)
1 medium egg, beaten
Juice of half of a large orange
Method:
Mix everything together; place in a heatproof basin, cover with baking parchment or greaseproof paper, plus foil, tied in place with string. Steam for 2 hours (or 1 hour in a water bath in a pressure cooker).
Pretty much any of the above ingredients can be substituted for similar things. If you mix these sorts of things, in this sort of proportions, it will probably work.

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Mmmm, meat flavoured custard

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I adore the way you cook. It's very approachable. Things aren't perfect, things aren't always tasty (speaking from your limited budget challenges) but the process makes sense. It takes a lot of pressure away from learning how to cook. Merry Christmas!

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Thanks - yeah, fear of failure puts a lot of people off trying, I feel, but failure is a great teacher!

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I very much agree, his cooking videos are so wholesome and approachable, makes me want to jump in the kitchen and make something new!

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"Today I'm feeling super festive" That's a feeling I haven't had for over a decade, which is both positive and negative.

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Dear Mr. Warosa, I just had a memory; Pandemic of 2020, I was stuck in Sweden, I made your banana custard steam pudding, I brought it to a Christmas lunch and it was a huge hit. I am eager to make it again. 🍌

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My Christmas will be a little better because of a stranger on the internet. Thanks Mike, your channel has given me the confidence and inspiration to use my oven for more than storage and my bride is impressed. Merry Christmas ;)

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I smiled so wide with this episode's "chiefs privilege" made me think of my Dad. Cheers and happy holiday.

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Currently got a christmas cake in the oven for my mum, watching christmas pudding get made, life is good

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It was so sweet to see, you telling Jenny, "I just made this up as i go along; about this much?" and her just happy to get a large slice of experimental pudding, sure that it would be delicious.

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If you like the taste of Lidl's Lebkuchen, you should try to get your hands on (Elisen-)Lebkuchen from Nürnberg, they are on a whole other level haha. Thanks for another year of funny, educational and recreational content. I am 30 and never really had a role model but since I found your channel a few years back, I knew exactly what I aspire to be. Merry Christmas you two :)

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Yes, Lebkuchen, Printen and Spekulatius definitely come in slightly different varieties/qualities. And it's worth spending a little more on the good stuff. When I was living in Berlin, I would order a 'care paket' every November from my hometown Aachen. No idea, if these type of small businesses will ship to post Brexit England, though.

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Heck yeah! My brother usually bring elisen kuchen when he visits. It's like comparing gold to lead.

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Wishing Mike, Jenny, Eva & all curious viewers of this channel a very happy/merry Christmas.. 🎄

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Max millar (tasting history) did a christmas pud recipe that had carrots in from WW1- clearly the universe is telling me I need to try it :D

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You're the cool Uncle I never had. Thanks for all the neat stuff this year. The clay pots were my favourite :)

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[@TheDarklingWolf]

Looks absolutely delicious. Also, I don't know why but for some reason towards the end when you had the pause after tasting it, I was expecting an outburst of "It's bloody awful!" 😅 Merry Christmas to you and yours Mike, and a very happy new year.

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Me too 😅

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Lol

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Yayyy!!! Loving this magnificent Creation!!!

[@tinablair2206]

I have not had Christmas Pudding since 1994 when I was living in Newmarket. I am wanting to try to make my own now! It looks so good. And custard in a gravy boat? I say "Yes, Please." Thank you for all of your videos. I thoroughly enjoy watching your creativity. Happy Holidays to you and Yours!!

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Speaking of stout beers, I had a really nice one last night. At an early Christmas dinner with my friend, it was dessert stout called Fudgebeast, and she couldn't finish it since it was 12% alcohol, so I was forced to have the rest. I know, quite chrivalrous of me. It was sweet, with a fairly strong coffee flavour over a thick dark chocolate brownie. Anyway, thanks for all the great videos this year! Hope you have a very merry Christmas, and a happy new year!

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Merry Christmas to Jenny, Eva, and you. Thank you for making my quiet Christmas a little more festive this year. Jenny's a lucky lady - all your gardening and food experiments mean that she's always eating something interesting (in the most positive meaning of the word). Christmas in a new house with most things still in boxes (or not yet repurchased) and you still managed a traditional treat.

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Merry Christmas! Smashing pud! 🎄

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barry lewis actually did a vid on a quick vs long slow cooked pudding a few days ago, with the result being one tasting like xmas pudding and the other like xmas cake

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That looked absolutely delicious, pity it'd just be me that would eat it in our house. Merry Christmas to you, Mr Shrimp, Jenny, and Eva.

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Merry Christmas, thanks for the festiveness!

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Thank you very much for this! Happy Christmas to you two, too!

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Merry Christmas and thanks for sharing. My mouth is watering.

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Zesting the orange made me realize how it might be helpful to zest with the tool aimed at the bowl, you can see all the oils flying in the air

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That's true!

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I'm in a good mood now, thank you! Enjoy the jolly days!

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Merry Christmas to you too.🎄

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That looked yummy and a proper serving of Christmas pud. 😋😋😋

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Merry Christmas Mr Shrimp!

[@grbadalamenti]

Maybe you can upcycle some Christmas puddings they sell off after Christmas in the supermarkets. I remember buying a smallish but still decent size Christmas pudding for 0,99 pounds a few years ago when I visited London. Your future few pounds challenges might benefit and get richer. Merry Christmas to you, Mr. AtomicShrimp and Jenny. And a virtual pat for the doggo!

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Looks excellent!

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Merry Christmas to you both Mike. Pudding looks delicious

[@LastofAvari]

Thank you for a pudding recipe, Mike. And hope you had a very merry Christmas indeed!

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That looks quite yummy. Well done and Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas, Mr Shrimp and family!

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My Mum used to start her "instant" Christmas pud on Dec 23rd by putting the dried fruits to soak in Guinness overnight👍 putting it altogether on the 24th she's also included chopped sunflower and pumpkin seeds. Fabulous.

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Merry Christmas to you both.

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All the best to you and Jennifer x

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Merry Christmas to you, Jenny, family and of course Eva.

[@KyleRDent]

I'm looking forward to this. I love Christmas pudding, but the ones in store always put nuts in which I personally hate, or you buy the ones without nuts but then they leave out the alcohol too. It's like you can only have everything or nothing. Once I have my own kitchen I'll attempt this with my own odds and sods.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Yeah, almost anything in this one can be swapped out. There are walnuts and chestnuts in it, but you could add some more dried fruits instead

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"Girthy Carrot". Sounds like a rather wide Country and Western singer. Merry Christmas, Mike and Jenny.

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Looks delicious !

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That looks so good!

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Merry Christmas, this look yummy!

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Thank you.........looks like the best recipe I have seen yet!

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Loverly!!! YUMMM!! Good job Mike. Wishing you & Jenny & Eva a fabulous xmas x

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Looks great. Gravy boat line was hilarious. Wishing the Shrimp family and all the fans a very Merry Christmas and a blessed new year!

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Thank you for your hard work with all these videos. That pudding looks absolutely delicious! Merry Christmas to all of you from Maine, USA!

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Merry Christmas Atomic

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Hi guys and Merry Xmas. I learned something new today. I'm not a big beer drinker. I calculated once that I've only drunk around 50 beers in my 70 years of dancing on this ball, most of that was with a spicy hot dinner. But I never heard of cellar temp for beer drinking in the UK. From what I understand cellar temp is around 50F. (I looked it up 55F 12C). You also reminded me of my one and only time making fruit cake and. a couple of weeks later, Christmas pudding, in the 1970s. my boiled pudding cooked on the stove for 8 hours or so, it kept the house warm and smelled lovely. It tasted lovely but my preference is for desserts of the Souffle, Bavarian Cream variety, intense flavours but airy textures. our puddings looked the same. I used suet and treacle (dark molasses) and even imported chestnuts. Lovely memories. Thanks, Jim Oaxaca Mexico

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Another wonderful video upload Mr Shrimp. Happy and Peaceful Christmas to you, Jenny and your lovely family.

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Merry Xmas Mr and Mrs Shrimp!!!

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Merry Christmas Mr. Shrimp

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Looks delicious!!!!

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Merry Christmas, and many thanks for all the entertainment and stimulating content. Best wishes for a productive New Year, too!

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Happy Holidays to you and your family (Eva too!!!), Shrimp! Thanks for another year of absolutely astounding, yet informative, videos.

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Have a lovely Christmas! Best wishes to you, Jenny and Eva

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That looks like a great pudding Mr Shrimp...Happy Christmas and thanks so much for all the videos.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Canada!

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Happy Xmas to you and Mrs Shrimp!

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Merry Christmas to you guys too.

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I couldn’t stop laughing when the ingredients just kept on coming 😂 I love winging recipes

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That looked really good! We also wish you a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year! From us in Sweden!

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That was a fun video to watch, and, as someone from across the North Sea who has never seen a christmas pudding, also mildly educational. Also a merry Christmas to you and Jenny.

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Merry Christmas to you two too :)

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You are so going to make that next year for yourselves. I can tell 😊 Merry Christmas, both.

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Merry Christmas! Pudding looks good.

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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to you.

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Awesome recipe

[@DeresFanTv]

Oh my that Christmas pudding looks absolutely delicious,Shrimp. Christmas in a bowl with custard served in a gravy boat....perfection lol. Merry Christmas to you and your family Atomic Shrimp,thank you for all the great content this year.