{"id":383,"date":"2004-10-25T11:02:18","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T09:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/?p=383"},"modified":"2004-10-25T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T09:02:18","slug":"christmas-puddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Christmas puddings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I cooked this year&#8217;s Christmas puddings &#8211; a little later than I&#8217;d intended, but they should still be fine by Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/1045664\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/1045664_5c99cc8715_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Christmas pudding mix\" \/><\/a>.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/1045664\/\">Christmas pudding mix<\/a><\/span><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Here are all the ingredients mixed together; they are: sultanas, currants, raisins, mixed peel, glac&eacute; cherries, chopped almonds, ground almonds, eggs, breadcrumbs, lemon peel &#038; juice, orange peel &#038; juice, mixed spice, cinnamon, brandy and stout. I use a recipe from <i>Good Housekeeping Beginner&#8217;s Cookbook<\/i> by Rosemary Wadey, which I&#8217;ve relied on since I bought it as a university student in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/1045666\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/1045666_5738e45f31_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Christmas puddings steaming\" \/><\/a>.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/1045666\/\">Christmas puddings steaming<\/a><\/span><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"\">You have to steam the puddings for 7-8 hours. If, like me, you don&#8217;t have a proper steamer, you can suspend them with string in boiling water.<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/1045669\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/1045669_5bbecff7d2_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Finished Christmas puddings\" \/><\/a>.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/1045669\/\">Finished Christmas puddings<\/a><\/span><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"\">And here&#8217;s the result. Now just store it in a cool, dark place until Christmas&#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I cooked this year&#8217;s Christmas puddings &#8211; a little later than I&#8217;d intended, but they should still be fine by Christmas. .Christmas pudding mix Here are all the ingredients mixed together; they are: sultanas, currants, raisins, mixed peel, glac&eacute; cherries, chopped almonds, ground almonds, eggs, breadcrumbs, lemon peel &#038; juice, orange peel &#038; juice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}