but not too thick or the pudding will taste dry. Remove from the heat, tip into a large mixing bowl, discard the bay leaf and leave to cool completely. To make the suet pastry, put the flour in a ...

This isn't the kind of sweet, whippy dessert pudding you may be familiar with. Brits in the 1800s tucked into denser dishes ...

Rarely available in its natural form, suet is mixed with flour and sold in supermarkets in cream-coloured blocks. A vegetarian suet made from palm oil and rice flour is also available, but it ...

What is the pudding in “A Christmas Carol”? It’s a richly spiced classic British dessert and studded with dried fruits. As ...

I always cook Delia's traditional Christmas pudding but this year I have a vegetarian guest and a guest with an egg allergy. Will the recipe work ok if I use vegetable suet and egg alternative?

How would you adjust the recipe if you added cheese or chopped ... They need steaming for several hours in a covered pudding bowl and suet just manages to hold the pastry together really well.

But this year I will make my own . . . So, to make a great pudding without using suet, search for recipes on Bite. Many "steamed pudding'' recipes are not steamed at all, but they do produce a ...