Gilligan's Gourmet: Christmas pudding with brandy butter

Cooking times

Allow 9 hours boiling time for a 2 pint pudding Allow 7 hours for a 1 and a half pint pudding. Allow 5 hours for a 1 pint pudding.

On the day you want to eat the pudding heat it up in a microwave, douse it in brandy and set it alight. When the fire has gone out serve with cream, custard or brandy butter.

BRANDY BUTTER

Ingredients

4 tablespoons softened, unsalted butter
Half cup of castor sugar
3 tablespoons brandy
Half teaspoon vanilla extract

Method

Put all the ingredients into a bowl. Beat with an electric beater until the mixture is smooth and well integrated. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours until the mixture is firm. Now serve alongside plum pudding!

AND FINALLY…

The jockey was riding the favorite at a race meeting, and was well ahead of the field. His horse rounded the final corner, when suddenly the jockey was hit on the head by a turkey and a string of sausages.

He managed to keep control of his mount and pulled back into the lead, only to be struck by a box of Christmas crackers and a dozen mince pies as he went over the last fence.

With great skill he managed to steer the horse to the front of the field once more when, on the run in, he was struck on the head by a bottle of sherry and a Christmas pudding.

Thus distracted, he succeeded in coming only second.

He immediately went to the race stewards to complain that he had been seriously hampered.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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