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Post by Netsuke on Feb 12, 2021 11:20:45 GMT 2
Last year, I bought a Ray's Christmas pudding. A small one. The smallest one. 900 grams. It is cooked in the cloth and tastes almost home made. It is the ONLY bought Christmas Pud that DOES! Anyway, I had some idea of sharing with s few family members but if never happened.
We were eighteen I think for Christmas lunch and a much bigger pudding we had.
So, this little pudding is sitting on its Pat Malone in my fridge. The fact that I am not supposed to eat desserts as I have Diabetes 2, am very overweight and I should be losing an amount of weight we will not discuss, I am feeling very sorry for this poor little pudding - it's been left on the shelf, forgotten, lost and all forlorn. In anticipation, today I bought two small bottles of cream.
My question is this :
1. Should I reboil the pudding and eat it?
2. Give it to the poor?
3. Throw it in the bin?
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 12, 2021 14:36:28 GMT 2
900 grams... all on your tod? hmmm... option 2 seems safest.
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Post by sophie on Feb 12, 2021 16:10:14 GMT 2
It should freeze well. Freeze it for a Christmas in July celebration, get rid of the cream and get serious about your health.
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 12, 2021 18:29:02 GMT 2
900 g is too much just for you. Sophie's idea of a Christmas celebration during Melbourne's winter is a good one. Ask the neighbours. And personally I prefer brandy butter which takes 10 seconds to make if you use a food processor.
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 12, 2021 20:27:33 GMT 2
The pudding would not be eaten in one sitting, but over several nights. I think it’s just gone past it’s use by date, perhaps freezing may not be an option.
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 13, 2021 0:04:58 GMT 2
it’s just gone past it’s use by date, perhaps freezing may not be an option.
Christmas puddings last for a long time. Don't worry about that.
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Post by Voy on Feb 13, 2021 15:56:33 GMT 2
combine your and Baz;sthoughts -- cut one slice for now and freeze the rest. even freeze it in pieces...( and , I agree with Baz on the brandybutter front, but ..as you have the cream and the health issues... a slice now with cream..why not?
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 13, 2021 20:10:43 GMT 2
After much deliberation and contemplation, without hesitation and procrastination, I am seriously leaning toward numero uno. At five in the morning, eating pudding at this time would I feel, be an unfortunate state of affairs, and breakfast not withstanding, I am of the opinion that pudding should come after the main course, ergo after an early nuncheon, Christmas Pudding will be on the agenda.
As a courtesy, I shall report back to write of the experience, but tout suite I shall retire with a hot cup of tea.
Bon nuit.
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Post by Voy on Feb 14, 2021 22:41:15 GMT 2
welll?  |
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 14, 2021 23:59:47 GMT 2
She is still in bed with Bon Nuit, whoever he is.
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 15, 2021 7:05:34 GMT 2
It went very well and bonne nuit became bon matin and has now become bonjour! The pudding was delicious! Mmm.....scrumdiddlyumptious oh yeah baby!
The only sad note on the horizon was I didn’t have any brandy or cognac to flame the pud. Zut alors!
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 15, 2021 11:27:11 GMT 2
No brandy? Do you have whisky? You might have tried whisky butter (I never have) and reported back on that.
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Post by Voy on Feb 15, 2021 15:53:20 GMT 2
but would whiskey flame? Where is Iain, we could have a flaming haggis.
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 16, 2021 0:57:42 GMT 2
A whisky might make you frisky but it don’t make the pudding flame, I know because I tried that one year. Sigh..... No brandy , no cognac, I had forgotten I had neither left. Still, the pudding didn’t have that “I’ve just been drowned in brandy” taste.
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