Set aside to cool completely. When you are ready to cook the pudding, first generously butter a 1.2 litre/2 pint pudding basin. To make the pastry, mix the ingredients together thoroughly and ...

Ahead of Christmas, Jersey Post has released its festive stamp set entitled Jersey’s International Christmas. The set, which ...

Rarely available in its natural form, suet is mixed with flour and sold in supermarkets in cream-coloured blocks. A vegetarian suet made from palm oil and rice flour is also available, but it ...

What is the pudding in “A Christmas Carol”? It’s a richly spiced classic British dessert and studded with dried fruits. As ...

Though it’s used in traditional desserts such as Christmas pudding and treacle puddings, you can use alternatives such as butter, although the result will be quite different. Suet is also used ...

What suet gives to baking, British especially, is a lightness and fluffiness that butter doesn’t. A traditional steak and kidney pudding just wouldn’t be the same with a butter pastry ...

Though suet remains a key ingredient in plum pudding ... well as a classic blend of Cognac and sherry. Packaged in a traditional pudding cloth, Devon-based Georgie Porgie’s Puddings has made ...