The Royal Family Just Shared Their Traditional Christmas Pudding Recipe

The Royal Family have shared their recipe for a traditional Christmas pudding

Photo: Via @RoyalFamily/Twitter

From Buckingham Palace, straight to our kitchens.

After watching The Crown all month, it’s safe to say we’re in the mood for something truly royal. The Royal Family‘s kitchens fulfilled our wish by sharing the recipe for their decadent Christmas pudding on Twitter, right in time for #StirUpSunday.

🥄 Today is #StirupSunday: traditionally the day when home cooks ‘stir up’ their Christmas pudding mixture.

This year, chefs in the Royal kitchens have shared their recipe for a traditional Christmas pudding.

We hope that some of you enjoy making it in your own homes. pic.twitter.com/BNepTPJD6a

— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) November 22, 2020

On the Sunday a month before Christmas, cooks all around the UK break out their mixing bowls and—you guessed it—stir up their pudding ingredients before steaming and storing their puddings until Christmas Day. Be warned, this one is HEAVY on the booze (not that we’re complaining)!

How to Make the Royal Family’s Christmas Pudding

This recipe might take a while, but it’s pretty simple. You will, however, need a kitchen scale as the ingredients are measured in grams. (Here are 10 must-try holiday food traditions from around the world.)

This recipe yields two 1-kilogram puddings, which is about 2 pounds apiece.

Ingredients

250g raisins
250g currants
185g sultanas
150g mixed peel (tangerine)
250g suet or vegetarian suet
250g bread crumbs
90g flour
12g mixed spice
2 whole eggs
180g demerara sugar
275ml beer
40ml dark rum
40ml brandy

Editor’s Note: Suet is the raw, hard fat of beef and mutton. If you can’t find it, use a vegetarian substitute or swap it out for grated vegetable shortening like Crisco.

Directions

Step 1: Prep your kitchen

Line up all your ingredients. Then, grab your kitchen scale, a large mixing bowl, two pudding basins (or large heat-safe bowls with wide bottoms and deep sides) and a saucepan deep enough to hold the basins.

Step 2: Combine the dry ingredients

Add the raisins, currants, sultanas, mixed peel, suet, bread crumbs, flour, mixed spice and demerara sugar to your mixing bowl and stir together.

Step 3: Add the wet ingredients

Add the eggs, beer, dark rum and brandy to the mix, then stir it all in. Make sure everything is evenly combined.

For a true Christmas experience, have the family stir together a few times and let each member make a wish!

Step 4: Put the mixture in the basin(s)

Grease up your pudding basins and gently pat the cake mixture into them until they’re nearly full (remember to leave space for expansion). Cover the top with a circle of parchment paper, trimming off any excess. (Check out the 20 secret cake baking tips we learned from Grandma.)

Step 5: Steam

Cover the basins with muslin cloth or foil and place them in the deep saucepan. Fill the water up to to 3/4 of the pudding basins’ height, then cover the top of the saucepan with foil. Steam for 6 hours, refilling the water as needed.