What is the best method to reheat a Christmas pudding? Is microwave method OK or is it best to reboil or reheat in oven?

just4jess - 2019-12-16 15:05:00

If its in a pudding basin (that it was cooked in) you can reheat in a crockpot/slow cooker.
Just fill the cooker with water to come about half way or so up the basin and reheat for 2-3 hours or so on slow. Longer won't matter.
I do ours like this every year and the good thing is you can put it on and put the slow cooker somewhere out of the way and forget about it generally until you are ready for dessert. Nice and easy!

nzhel - 2019-12-16 16:31:00

We don’t eat Christmas pudding anymore but when we did I’d reboil it in the basin then heat some brandy, light it and pour the brandy over it. The next day we’d slice it up cold and fry it in brandy butter - delicious ????

sarahb5 - 2019-12-16 17:51:00

sarahb5 wrote:

We don’t eat Christmas pudding anymore but when we did I’d reboil it in the basin then heat some brandy, light it and pour the brandy over it. The next day we’d slice it up cold and fry it in brandy butter - delicious ????

That's the way my parents (or should I say my mother, with my father hanging over her dishing out instructions) did it. Though they just used plain butter.

buzzy110 - 2019-12-16 17:58:00

I would just slice it as needed and microwave it by the piece on the serving plate before adding cream or sauce etc

timturtle - 2019-12-16 18:57:00

Microwave it! I got out a commercial sauced pudding straight out of the freezer. Got it out of the plastic container, cut off two pieces, zapped them in the microwave and it was delicious!

glasshalfull - 2019-12-16 19:42:00

timturtle wrote:

I would just slice it as needed and microwave it by the piece on the serving plate before adding cream or sauce etc

This is what we do, easy as. No boiling pot to worry about or a CP taking up bench space.

nauru - 2019-12-16 20:31:00

fried in butter pour over hot custard then plop icecream on yummy, same with Christmas cake

gardner12 - 2019-12-20 16:32:00

Duh. I mistook the original question. I now believe it was a question about reheating the entire pudding as they are cooked before Xmas and are reheated on Xmas day.

Obviously the microwave is the handiest and easiest way. I don't have a microwave so wouldn't even think to giving that answer. My mother used to put it into a pot of water, which completely covered the entire pudding (she cooked hers in floured muslin cloth but it works the same when cooked in a pudding tin) and boiled it for an hour or so, while we ate the main course.

It required it being carefully watched. The water had to cover the entire pudding for the entire cooking time.

It was a bit of a palaver and even I cannot be bothered enough to do Christmas pudding anymore, especially since after all that work, no one wants it.

buzzy110 - 2019-12-20 16:52:00