Waiting on Plum Pudding
We’re hoping to make an Advent tradition out of plum pudding. Yes, we mean the old sort of english plum pudding. The kind that isn’t really a pudding and that contains no plums.
We’ve figured out the schedule. On the first Sunday of Advent, start getting the fruit drunk. (Technically, this continues during the first week of Advent, but after the initial session with the bottle of brandy, the following bouts only take a couple minutes per day. And there’s beef fat involved in this too, but for the moment all that is mere “detail.”) Sit the empty pudding mold out on the counter. The second Sunday of Advent is the day for the marathon steaming process. The only real tip I can offer at this point is to keep checking the water level in your pot. On the third Sunday of Advent, we just wait, and go out to eat somewhere local-ish that we like. There’s nothing to do to the pudding since it’s just sitting “in a cool place.” On the forth and final Sunday, we make the hard sauce.
We don’t know if the “recipe” I cobbled together is any good. We’ll find that out on Christmas Eve. At any rate, with as much alcohol as has gone into the production of this little experiment, and with our plan to light a little more alcohol on fire, we will feel quite festive.
If it ends up tasting good, we’ll post the recipe and let you all know where to find it. Until then, though, we resume our waiting and hoping.
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