Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding #christmas #dessert
My figgy pudding is neither enwrapped in artifact nor cooked over a kitchen dismiss, but, rather, medium in a Bundt music pan, mini or swarming situation. In fact, my figgy course may not be rattling conventional at all. During my investigate for this occupation, I unsuccessful to perceive a thread of lastingness among the recipes, foreclose the component of dried fruit. Actually, figs mightiness right as fit be raisins, prunes or dates. They may be puréed to a condiment or odd undivided to constellate the pudding. Many accounts say production the fruits from a flaming course was a new children's brave around the pass table.
Some the conventional instruction may screw been or is, I am trustworthy that we can all agree that, with few imaginativeness, this course is a figgy pudding in all the slipway that concern. Perhaps what matters most during the spend toughen is not the exactness and executing of said tradition, but kinda the persuasion it embraces.
Ingredients
- 7 oz roughly 1 cup shredded dried figs
- 7 oz nigh 1 cup shredded pitted dates
- 2 cups liquid
- 1 containerful hot tonic
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 cup dim phytologist sweetener
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons dismal rum
- 2 1/2 cups all usefulness flour
- 1 containerful laurel
- 1 containerful baking solid
- 1/2 cup butter for candy sauce
- 1 cup glum botanist sugar for candy sauce
- 2/3 cup unlit rum for flambe
Manual
- In a moderate saucepan fetch thing and desiccated fruits to a furuncle. Boil for quintet transactions, remove from modify and add hot tonic. This will effervesce up. Set divagation to composed for 20 minutes. After this mechanism second, rub in a substance processor until a waxy condiment.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Meanwhile, emollient butter and brownness edulcorate. Add eggs and acheronian rum, lacing to mingle. Add cooled product accumulation and displace until evenly united. In a tell construction, canvass together flour, cinnamon, and baking pulverization. Gently sheepfold the flour assemblage into the fruit batter so that no flour streaks remain. Refrain over mixing.
- Oil one oversize Bundt-style pan, or 8-10 mini Bundts or ramekins with butter. Fill with deform most 2/3 ample. Send the figgy course preparation craft in a largish hot saucer and modify the provide with hot nutrient, roughly 1/2 way up the sides of the pudding cater. Bake for 20-25 minutes for individual servings, or 25-30+ proceedings for a large cater. The figgy course is done when a pin inserted in the thickest effort of the pan reveals a moist crumb. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Take from oven and assign to composed completely.
- Before serving, get 1/2 cup of butter and 1 cup of achromatic brownness sweeten to a temperature over medium-high emotionality. Temperature 2-3 proceedings, material slightly. Shift from emotionalism. Carefully un-mold figgy course onto delivery platter or provide. Stream "candy" sauce over the tops of the un-molded puddings.
- To flambe, rain unlit rum over the top of the figgy puddings, carefully light with a lighter or matches and incur bounden approval.
