Algemeen
Bereidingstijd: Langer dan 2 uur
Maaltijdgang: Nagerecht / Nagerecht
Soort keuken: Engelse keuken
Techniek:
Aantal personen:
Ingredienten:
Sift 1 cup all purpose Flour,
Prepare & Dredge lightly with 1/2 cup of the flour:
1-1/2 cups loosely packed very, extremely finely chopped @1/2lb Suet (get the real thing! Ask your Butcher),
mixed with 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
and 1T grated orange peel,
1T grated Lemon peel,
1 cup black raisins,
1/2 cup golden raisins,
1/2 cup currents,
1/2 cup candied c
Voorbereiding:
Hard Sauce
(It′s easy!)
Sift 1-1/2 cup confectioner′s sugar
cream 6T
sweet butter
Blend together witha fork
Add 1/8 t salt
1 t vanilla or
(1/2 t vanilla
1/2 t rum)
1/2 t spices
Chill.
Bereidingswijze:
Resift remaining flour with:
1/2 grated nutmeg,
1/4 t Mace, 1/2t cinnamon, 1/2 t cloves, 1/2t salt, 1/2t baking powder,
Combine dredged and sifted ingredients with
4 egg yolks,
1/4 cup cream, 1 T marmalade, 1 T molasses,
juice of one orange and one lemon,
1/4 cup brandy,
1-1/2 cups dry grated bread crumbs,
Whip until stiff: 4 egg whites w/1/8t salt and fold in,
(I believe you are also supposed to include an English Penny),
Place mixture in tightly covered bowl (two sheets of tinfoil tied tightly around the top),
Cook in steamer (pasta cooker is great -- watch the water level!) for 6 (six) hours,
Soak cheesecloth (enough for several layers) in brandy and wrap cooked mixture into tight ball and store hanging in the laundry room (haha! coolest room in the house, unheated room, cool dry room, or improvise...cement basement. Watch out for ants! Open from time to time and pour over generous amounts of brandy (put some sort of tray under it). +/- three months to cure.
Serve hot with a Maraschino Cherry (only 1) on top with cream sauce or rum sauce poured over all; the hard sauce is on the side.
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