Grandma’s Christmas Carrot Pudding

"Spiced sponge cake made in a traditional British style using raisins, currants, and spices to flavor a deliciously moist sponge made with carrots, potatoes, and suet. Drizzle with a warm brandy butter sauce and you will be singing its praises vs carols this Christmas!"

- The Delicious Spoon

Brandied Brown Sugar Sauce

key ingredient:

Ingredients:

– granulated sugar – egg – milk – carrots – potatoes – raisins – shredded suet, butter or lard – currants – all-purpose flour – baking soda – ground cloves – ground nutmeg – ground cinnamon

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Grandma’s Christmas Carrot Pudding

Yield

12 Servings

Course

Dessert

prep time

30 Minutes

Cuisine

British

1. Peel and grate the carrots and potatoes and set aside. Cover them with a damp paper towel to keep them moist and to prevent the potatoes from browning while preparing the other ingredients.

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2. Add the milk, egg and sugar to a bowl and mix well to combine. Then add the shredded carrots, potatoes, raisins, and shredded suet to the bowl. Mix it all up well until combined.

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3. Place a large sieve over the wet ingredients and add the flour, baking soda, and spices to the sieve. Use a spoon to push it through the sieve into the wet ingredients below. This helps to really combine the spices and baking soda and remove any lumps.

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4. Add the carrot pudding mix to a medium-sized metal, glass or ceramic bowl that has a lip or edge on the side. This edge is important because you will need to create a little basket for the Christmas pudding for steaming. More on that later!

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5. Next, grab some parchment paper and cooking twine. You will want a large enough piece of parchment paper to cover the bowl after creating a 2″ or so fold in the center like the photo above. You also need some extra parchment to hang well over the edge so you can tie the cooking twine around the bowl.

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5. (continued) To secure the parchment paper tie the twine over the paper securing it tightly under the lip or edge of the bowl. Tie it tightly.

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6. After the parchment paper is secured repeat this step again with a layer of aluminum foil.

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7. When the foil is secure add a handle by wrapping more kitchen twine under the string wrapped around the bowl and folding it over and under the other side then tying it tightly to form a handle that can lift the heavy bowl out of the steamer when it is done.

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8. Place the carrot pudding bowl in a large pot inside a steamer basket. You will want to fill the pot with water up to a water level halfway up the side of the bowl. Don’t let the bowl sit directedly on the bottom of the pot.

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9. Cover the pot and bring the water to a boil and then reduce the heat to a simmer and let the Carrot pudding steam for about 3 hours covered. Remove the carrot pudding from the steamer basket carefully and serve warm with Brandied Brown Sugar Sauce drizzled overtop.

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Enjoy!

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