Christmas Date Pudding with Butter Sauce

This Christmas Date Pudding with Butter Sauce will make you the hit of any Christmas get together. Steeped in tradition , this pudding will become a repeat perfomer at many holiday gatherings.

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Christmas Date Pudding will have a very coarse texture.

Indulge in the Decadent Christmas Pudding

Christmas pudding is part of a traditional English pudding. Date pudding is served at Amish Weddings. Date pudding with butter sauce is a unique Christmas desert that will become a beloved family tradition. You can serve it at the end of a Christmas dinner or later in the evening with coffee.

It is a very rich desert and can be served on it's own. Using butter is essential for the rich flavor and texture of this desert. It is not something you can make a low fat version of. If you are counting calories this holiday season , you will want to count them elsewhere , and enjoy this decadent indulgent desert.

This desert could also be served late Christmas morning in place of pastry. Again it can be a stand alone item served with juice and coffee. It can also be served at a holiday gathering , it goes wonderfully with hot rum drinks.

Cook Time

Prep time: 15 min

Cook time: 40 min

Ready in: 55 min

Yields: This recipe makes about 4 servings

Ingredients for Christmas Date Pudding

• 6 large eggs, separated
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 stick butter, unsalted
• 4 tbs flour, heaping
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 cups dates, chopped
• 2 cups walnuts, chopped
• 1/2 tsp salt, kosher

Instructions for Christmas Date Pudding

1. Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees
2. Separate three large eggs. Put side yolks in medium glass bowl. Put aside whites in medium glass bowl.
3. Fold in sugar while you beat your egg whites. Egg whites should be stiffly beaten.
4. Beat egg yolks and add to mixture.
5. Fold in flour,baking powder, and salt.
6. Mix in chopped dates and nuts with a wooden spoon. Mix well. Pudding will have very coarse texture.
7. Spread into a greased 2-qt. baking dish. Bake pudding at 325 for 40 minutes or until fork inserted in center comes out clean. Check after 30 minutes.

Nutrition for Christmas Date Pudding without Butter Sauce

Nutrition Facts
Serving size: 1/2 cup
Calories	600
Calories from Fat	225
% Daily Value *
Fat 25 g	38%
Saturated fat 5 g	25%
Carbohydrates 95 g	32%
Fiber 6 g	24%
Protein 7 g	14%
Cholesterol 125 mg	42%
Sodium 265 mg	11%
* The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet, so your values may change depending on your calorie needs. The values here may not be 100% accurate because the recipes have not been professionally evaluated nor have they been evaluated by the U.S. FDA.

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Ingredients for Butter Sauce

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter unsalted
• 2 cups water boiling
• 2 tablespoons flour heaping

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Use brown sugar in the butter sauce recipe for carmelized butter sauce.

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Instructions for Butter Sauce

1. In a large bowl combine sugar and flour.
2. Cut in softened butter with fork
3. Place mixture in sauce pan
4. Add boiling water to pan.
5. Whisk in heaping four
6. Over medium heat stir mixture slowly until thickens.
7. Generally it will take 5 plus minutes to thicken
8. Do not boil.
9. Let set a couple of minutes to thicken more and then pour over pudding while hot.
10. To make this a carmelized sauce use brown sugar instead of white.

Date Pudding with a marshmellow and carmel sauce.

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A recipe for Sticky Date Pudding

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Hoosier Holiday Hurry Curry Dip

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Busy this holiday season , but still have to bring a dish to a holiday get together? Try a vegtable platter and holiday hurry curry dip, it will be a holiday hit and is fast to prepare.

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We are all busy during the holiday, but we all have usually at least one office holiday get together or family gathering that requires us to bring a treat. Health conscious folks always head for raw vegetable tray at get together. This year instead of making the old stand by onion or ranch dip, try this easy hurry curry dip. It goes great with raw veggies and pita chips. There is a low calorie version of this dip included in this recipe.

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This is a great dip to take to a holiday office pitch in.

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Cook Time

Prep time: 30 min

Ready in: 30 min

Yields: enough for the center of a veggie tray- 1 cup

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Ingredients Holiday Hurry Curry Dip

• 1 cup mayonnaise or Miracle Whip
• 1 tsp vinegar, white
• 1 tsp horseradish
• 1 tsp onion flakes, dried
• 1 tsp garlic salt
• 1 tbsp curry powder

Holiday Hurry Curry Dip Instructions

1. Mix mayonnaise or Miracle Whip , Vinegar, horseradish well with a egg beater.
2. With a wooden spoon mix in onion flakes,garlic salt,and curry powder.
3. Garnish with paprika.
4. For healther version use low fat cottage cheese prepared in a blender. Substitute garlic powder for garlic salt.
5. Note curry flavor is not as strong as amount used seems to suggest.

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Use lowfat cottage cheese as a way to save calories in this recipe.

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For Mayo Based Holiday Hurry Curry Dip

Nutrition Facts
Serving size: 1
Calories	120
Calories from Fat	18
% Daily Value *
Fat 2 g	3%
Carbohydrates 7 g	2%
Sugar 2 g
Cholesterol 10 mg	3%
Sodium 210 mg	9%
* The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet, so your values may change depending on your calorie needs. The values here may not be 100% accurate because the recipes have not been professionally evaluated nor have they been evaluated by the U.S. FDA.

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: A Hoosier Wrestles With No Hassle Wassail

7 pints of brown ale, 1 bottle of dry sherry, cinnamon stick, ground ginger, ground nutmeg, lemon slices (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Anointing The wassail continues with anointing the roots of the tree with Cider to put back some goodness into the soil. The wassail continues with some 306010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

How To Make No Hassle Yuletide Wassail

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Clove your oranges before you slice them.

Boil the gingerale and not the booze.

Have A Party To Assure the Health of Your or Anybody's Apple Trees

Wassail is an old English salute that mean to your health. It was originally a hard cider drink. Wassail was made in Southren England as part of a ritual to ensure a good apple crop the next year. Wassailing was when farmers went from village to village drinking the mulled hard cider and wishing good health to the apple trees.

Yuletide Wassail could be hard cider , but it was more likely a heated beer or mead with sugar, ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon. The hot Wassail was places in a bowl. Guest partook of the ale by using toast or bread to soak it up. I suggest you spare your carpet soggy crumbs and serve your Wassail in punch cups.

Lambs' wool Wassail was originally a wassail made with baked apples. It was called “La Mas Ubhal,’ named after the angel who looked after fruit. The English pronounced the angel’s name like lambs wool and apparently added milk or cream. This supposedly gives the drink the appearance of lambs wool.

Part of a Lamb’s Wool Wassailing Song

Next crowne the bowle full of
With gentle Lambs wooll,

Adde sugar, nutmeg, and ginger,
With store of ale too,
And thus ye must doe

To make the Wassaile a swinger.

Wassail While You Work

This also is a good holiday office party drink..Don’t just make this at Christmas. Wassail is good for New Year’s Eve and after any kind of out door winter activity. Heck be a trendsetter and celebrate 12^th night. I mean the fertility of your neighbor’s fruit trees is depending on you so wassail away!

This recipe gives your two versions of wassail. One in which you add a little milk and give the wassail the lamb’s wool look. The other version you garnish the Wassail with the clove studded orange slices.

Cook Time No Hassle Yuletide Wassail

Prep time: 30 min

Cook time: 20 min

Ready in: 50 min

Yields: 25 4oz servings

Ingrediants for No Hassle Yuletide Wassail

• 6 Apples, Small
• 2 Oranges
• 24 whole cloves, for garnish
• 2 tsp allspice, ground
• 3 cardamom, Pods or 1/4 tsp ground
• 3 whole cloves, or 1/8 tsp ground for mulling
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg, ground
• 2 liters Ginger Ale
• 1 (750ml) Cream Sherry
• 1 cup Brandy, Apricot or be creative
• 1 Cup (optional) Milk, enough for a splash on the in 4 oz of Wassail to make Lambs wool

Nutrition for Yuletide Wassail.. Sure it has fruit .. Must be good for you!

Nutrition Facts
Serving size: 4 oz
Calories	120
Calories from Fat	0
% Daily Value *
Carbohydrates 25 g	8%
Sugar 28 g
Sodium 5 mg
* The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet, so your values may change depending on your calorie needs. The values here may not be 100% accurate because the recipes have not been professionally evaluated nor have they been evaluated by the U.S. FDA.

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Instructions for No Hassle Yuletide Wassail

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Cook your apples on a cookie sheet for at least 20 minutes. They should be brown and tender when done.
2. Break up your spices and secure them in a cheese cloth with a cotton string. I cheat I just cut a coffee filter to fit a tea ball.
3. It is more authentic to use cardamom pods and whole clove, but you end up grinding them up. Fresh ground cardamom is much more potent then regular ground. This is the conversion. There are four seeds per cardamom pod. So grinding the seeds yields you less than a ¼ teaspoon. So I figure a ¼ of a teaspoon makes up for the loss of potency in the ground variety of cardamom
4. You want whole cloves to decorate the sides of your orange slices. Don’t try to put the whole cloves in the oranges after you slice them. Twelve cloves will go on each orange. Arrange them in a way that the slices have even numbers of cloves. You want 12 slices out of each orange. If you are going to offer both the lamb’s wool version of the wassail with the apples, you will not need as many orange slices or you can make them thicker.
5. Just In case you are not use to using whole cloves, they are the ones your mother put on the Ham at Easter when you were growing up. One clove is 1/8 of a teaspoon. I just use the ground versions. Besides, if you don’t live if a big city than cardamom pods are generally not available at your corner store. If you choose to ground the cardamom pods and whole cloves you can do it all at the same time in any standard coffee grinder.
6. Heat two cups of ginger ale until boiling . place your spice bag in the ginger ale. Simmer the mixture for about twenty minutes. Throw out the spice bag. Add the rest of the ginger ale, sherry, and brandy. Do not boil, but simmer on a medium heat until very hot. Heat your Wassail no more than ten minutes. We do not really want to lose the booze content by cooking it out. No one likes a wussy wassail.
7. If it was not obvious you do not want to make the lamb’s wool version of this Wassail and use oranges. Oranges will curd your Wassail, if you have added milk.
8. You will garnish your Wassail with the cooked apples if you whisk in milk at the last minute or the clove studded orange slices. Serve the wassail while it is hot. This makes 25 4 once servings

These men care so much about their neighbors apple trees that they now are driving out the evil spirits by beating the tree with a stick.

Source: Glyn Baker [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Have A 12th Night Party and Beat Some Fruit Trees

This is obviously an English thing. But have if you go have any English blood or by chance speak English then I believe this is an appropriate thing to do while you drink Wassail. In the states, we have lots of apple trees. These men are ensuring their English apple trees are fertile by beating the evil spirits out of them . Then I think they get toasted ( by soping toast in Wassail ) and sing to the tree. Wonder if this is the origin of toasted?

If you live in Florida , I see not reason you could not beat an orange tree. I suggest that you do this in your own yard! Wassailing in your neighbors yard might just get you arrested. Wassail at your own risk!

An Apple Wassail Hampshire Style: You Got To Wassail Toasted to Do This!

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