Best Prune Pudding Recipes

PRUNE PUDDING

Steps:

• Place prunes in a medium-size saucepan, pour in 2 cups hot water and let stand for 1 hour. Transfer saucepan to the stove and bring prunes to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, for 5 to 10 minutes until soft.
• Drain prunes, reserving the liquid, and roughly chop. Add more hot water to the reserved prune water so it totals 2 cups. Place prunes and prune water back in the saucepan and add the sugar, powdered cinnamon and cinnamon stick. Stir to combine and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make a slurry by mixing the cornstarch and 2 tablespoons cold water. Add the slurry to the prune mixture and cook over low heat for 5 minutes, stirring constantly, to thicken mixture. Remove the cinnamon stick and ladle the pudding into ramekins. Let cool, then chill in the refrigerator. Serve cold.

PRUNE KUMQUAT STICKY PUDDING WITH ARMAGNAC TOFFEE SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F and generously butter an 11-cup Kugelhopf pan (see note, above) or 11-cup bundt pan.
• Halve prunes and in a small saucepan simmer with Armagnac and 3/4 cup water, uncovered, 5 minutes. With a slotted spoon transfer prunes to a shallow dish to cool. Boil Armagnac mixture until reduced to about 1/2 cup and add to prunes.
• Halve kumquats lengthwise and thinly slice crosswise. In a small saucepan bring remaining 1/2 cup water with 1/4 cup granulated sugar to a simmer, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Add kumquats and simmer 10 minutes. In a fine sieve drain kumquats and add to prunes.
• Into a bowl sift together flour, baking soda, ginger, allspice, and salt. Resift mixture into another bowl.
• In a large bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter, remaining 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar, and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, and beat in vanilla. Add flour mixture and prune mixture alternately in batches, beginning and ending with flour mixture and beating until just combined.
• Spoon batter into pan (pan will be almost full) and bake in middle of oven 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on a rack 10 minutes and turn out onto rack to cool completely. Cake keeps, wrapped in plastic wrap, at room temperature 1 week.
• Garnish cake with kumquats and serve with warm toffee sauce and ice cream.

SVISKER GRöT - NORWEGIAN PRUNE PUDDING

Steps:

• Wash prunes, cover with hot water and let stand for an hour; simmer until soft.
• Remove stones and add prunes back to cooking water; add sugar, salt, cinnamon and boiling water and simmer for ten minutes.
• Mix cornstarch with a little cold water to make a smooth paste; add to prune mixture and cook for five minutes, stirring constantly.
• Remove cinnamon and add lemon juice.
• Pour into a mold, chill and serve with cream.
• **Variation: fold in the stiffly-beaten whites of two eggs to which 2 tablespons of sugar have been added and 1/2 cup of nut meats (butternuts, hazlenuts, hickory nuts or walnuts).

PRUNE PUDDING (IT'S A CAKE)

Steps:

• 1. Mix all ingredients together well and bake in large 9x13 pan. Bake at 325 degrees for about 45 minutes.
• 2. DRESSING: 1 Cup sugar 1 T. honey or syrup 1/2 Cup butter 1/2 Cup buttermilk
• 3. Mix together and bring to a boil. Pour over the BAKED pudding. Return to the over for 5 or 10 minutes.

PRUNE, APPLE, AND CHESTNUT BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• For bread mixture:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Place bread on large rimmed baking sheet. Bake until almost firm, about 7 minutes. Cool on sheet. Whisk remaining ingredients in large bowl to blend. Stir in bread. Cover and chill until bread absorbs custard, at least 3 hours.
• For filling:
• Preheat oven to 400°F. Sauté bacon in large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat until fat renders, about 7 minutes. Drain all but 2 tablespoons fat into small bowl. Add onions to bacon and fat in skillet and sauté until soft, about 10 minutes.
• Add apples, chestnuts, celery root, and thyme. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Sauté 5 minutes to blend flavors. Add Sherry. Boil until juices thicken to syrup consistency, about 2 minutes. Add broth and bring to boil. Place skillet in oven and bake uncovered until apples and celery root are tender, about 20 minutes. Mix in whole prunes and 2 tablespoons of reserved bacon fat. Season to taste with salt and pepper. (Bread mixture and filling can be prepared 1 day ahead. Keep bread mixture refrigerated. Cover filling and refrigerate.)
• Preheat oven to 325°F. Spread filling in 3 1/2-quart ovenproof casserole or 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish. Spoon bread mixture evenly over, covering completely. Bake pudding until puffed, golden brown, and firm to touch in center, about 45 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

STEAMED CHOCOLATE, STOUT & PRUNE PUDDING

Steps:

• Put the prunes in a dish with the stout and leave to soak overnight. The next day, strain and reserve the stout, and set the prunes aside.
• Butter a 1.5-litre pudding basin really well. Sift the cocoa powder together with the flour, bicarb and baking powder. Beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy, then gradually add the eggs, a little at a time, beating well after each addition. Fold in the sifted ingredients, alternating with the reserved stout, followed by all the walnuts, the dark chocolate and soaked prunes. Scrape the batter into the prepared basin.
• Put a piece of baking parchment on top of a sheet of foil (both large enough to cover the top of the basin). Fold a pleat along the middle, then place, parchment-side down, on top of the pudding, with the pleat across the centre. Tie firmly in place with string, using the string to make a handle. Trim the excess parchment and foil.
• Put the pudding in a large saucepan with a lid, then pour in enough boiling water to come one-third of the way up the side of the basin. Bring the water to a simmer, cover the pan and steam the pudding for 1¾ hrs, making sure that the pan doesn't boil dry. Leave to sit for 10 mins.
• For the sauce, put the chocolate in a bowl. Pour the cream, stout and sugar into a heavy-bottomed saucepan and heat gently, stirring until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is hot, then pour over the chocolate. Leave to sit for 2 mins or so. Stir until smooth.
• To turn the pudding out, run a knife around the edge of the basin. Set a serving plate on top of the pudding, invert, give it a bit of a shake and it should slide out. Pour some of the chocolate sauce over the top and offer the rest in a jug, with some crème fraîche or whipped cream on the side.

APPLE, PRUNE AND PEACH CHRISTMAS PUDDING

Steps:

• Place dried fruit, sugar, butter, juice and rind in a medium saucepan. Bring to boil stirring occasionally until butter has melted and sugar dissolved. Add apple. Transfer to a large bowl to cool.
• Grease a 6 cup pudding basin and line base with baking paper.Pour over the golden syrup.
• Stir the eggs into the fruit mixture and mix well. Fold through the breadcrumbs and flour.
• Spoon the pudding mixture into prepared basin packing down firmly as you go. Cover the basin with a circle of buttered non-stick baking paper and two circles of foil. Tie securely with kitchen string.
• Stand pudding on a trivet (heatproof raised rack) inside a large saucepan or stockpot. Fill with enough hot water to come 2/3 up the side of basin.
• Cover pot with a lid and simmer for 5 hours, topping up the pot with boiling water as needed. Don't let it boil dry.
• Cool and store in basin in fridge until Christmas.
• To reheat, boil pudding using the method above, for 2 hours. Serve with custard, brandy cream or icecream and decorate with berries.

RICE & PRUNE PUDDING

Steps:

• 1. Stir together the cooked rice, 1 1/2 cups milk and the salt in a saucepan over medium heat. 2. Cook and stir for about 20 minutes or until thick and creamy. 3. Add the remaining 1/2 cup milk, chopped prunes, sugar and beaten egg to the rice mixture whilst constantly stirring. 4. Cook about 3 minutes. 5. Remove from heat and stir in butter and vanilla extract. 6. Serve immediately if you like it hot, like me or chill and add whip cream just before serving.