Matthew Walkers Classic Christmas Pudding - 800g - 28.2oz

Traditional English Christmas Pudding! For a little taste of home. Heat in steamer for 2 hours then flambe with warmed brandy and serve with brandy butter sauce!!

Classic Christmas pudding!

I bought this to take to my mother-in-laws at Christmas so the family could taste a little traditional English Christmas Pudding. I personally didn't like it as a child (I am English), but as an adult I now have an appreciation for this rather tasty pudding (which really isn't a pudding). It was moist and delicious, but don't over heat in the microwave. If I had the time, I would have heated it the old fashioned way, by steaming it. I will definitely be buying again. Goes great with either Devonshire Custard or Bird's Eye Custard.

These are fine if you are going to eat them on your own, you glutton! but I would be cautious about serving them to guests. For example, I'd prepare at least one on my own before I would serve it to guests. I think the fruit is fine. But they're a bit dry. And this is unpleasant, unless you properly hydrate them. Yes, I know, that's why you steam them before serving. But because they start out so dry, steaming is a lengthy process, and it's anything but easy to know when you've steamed them adequately. My comparison is the Christmas Pudding my mom (yes! dear old mum) used to make and they were AWESOME ... and never dry. Never. So this is "not my Mom's Christmas Pudding". But as I say, the fruit is fine, so if you do "re-hydrate" them well, and serve with plenty of Brandy Butter they'll do just fine.

This is indeed a pretty classic Christmas pudding. It's hard to get anything of the kind edible in the U.S., I've tried various, and this one tastes like what I'd get at a supermarket in the U.K. It's not homemade but it does bring a taste of home.

The pudding arrived in an unmarked package covered with red cellophane - no name, no identification, no nutritional information, no cooking instructions ... no nothing. It was for Christmas, arrived a few days before, no time to send it back. It tasted just fine, although I had to Google the cooking instructions, and came out like a long long be of the same puddings o have had over the years. Why does the Company (alternatively, Amazon) permit open packages of food items to be re-sold.

Microwaved as directed, allowing for proper cooling, and the result was delicious. Lathered in brandy butter resulted in a crazy good 'figgy pudding' as we call it here. A Christmas tradition come alive. "We won't go until we've got some..."

Hard to get a plum pudding after your mum had boiled one every year. This was yummy. Was moist and very fruity. Loved it will buy again. Best cold. Yumm