Anyone else making 🎄 puddings soon?

No. I shall buy one.

Just wondering if those of you saying home made are best have actually tried a supermarket one lately! I used to make a tweaked Delia Smith recipe - it was delicious but 3 years ago we tried one from Aldi and decided it was better, a fraction of the cost and much less faff!

My mum always made a cake and a pudding. I didn't make one for years as my ex didn't like them. When I remarried my DH likes his cake so I made them for years and ended up making a few for relatives. Then slowly as family members passed I stopped and decided to buy. The bakery I used closed this year so I have made my own cake and it's nicely wrapped and ready to be fed this week. However I haven't made a pudding and just buy a supermarket one.

Cakes and puds all done, wrapped and being brandy fed every ten days. Still have a pudding from last year too - it smells divine, yum !

Not pudding but I always make the cake in half term. Started the tradition when my boys were little so they could ‘help’

I might make a couple this year, gf ones.

Still eying up the large one I made ?? years ago, still sitting in the cupboard, it must be vintage by now. To eat or not to eat? I wouldn't inflict it on anyone but DH and me.
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At the moment the slow cooker is full of red cabbage simmering away.

Not puddings but all GC will be here next week for a Christmas cake stir-up. Great way to keep the kitchen warm on rainy half-term day.

I like the idea of using a slow-cooker; that sounds almost manageable. My MiL used to make a lot of puddings as gifts each year - she had a boiler that came out of the garage and sat in the garden bubbling away for days on end in November!

keepcalmandcavachon I started making mine in a slow cooker. Used the same recipe I'd used for years. Turned out lovely. 4 hours on high and 4 hours on low. So much easier, no topping up with water at all, no steamed up kitchen!

Thankyou grandmabatty, will look it out

keepcalmandcalvachon Mary Berry has a slow cooker recipe. I might try mini puddings in the slow cooker. Thanks for the suggestion!

No, never. I don’t like anything with dried fruit, but I always bought DH a few of the individual puddings, as he liked the odd one. They kept well, so I often surprised him with one at Easter or on his (November) birthday.

Ah, Witzend, nothing like little ones knelt up on a stool helping, what fun! I'm going to look for a slow cooker pudding recipe this year - has any one tried this? Any tips at all would be appreciated

I always make mine late October / early November. My family have gone from "We're not really bothered" to "when are you making them"
We always make a wish as well.
I think home made ones are so much better. Guinness and brandy in mine. I also use grated carrot and chopped apple which makes them lighter than shop ones.

I don't know. No one eats them in my family except me. I used to make individual puddings so I might half the quantities and join you next week