We Followed An 1840s Figgy Pudding Recipe
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2022
- Hello and welcome to another video! In order to get into the holiday spirit, today we’re gonna be attempting to make a figgy pudding recipe from the 19th century! Because we've heard the carol, but we've never tasted the pudding. We’re following the recipe that Max Miller used on Tasting History from 1845 and it’s a two day process - but hopefully it’ll be worth it in the end!
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HELLO FRIENDS! we'd heard the carol, but we've never tasted the pudding - so we decided to try and make it, the old fashioned way! well, the victorian way, not the medieval way... what did you guys think of our "speckled cannon ball"? also - re: the saf channel, i know it's been a while since we posted on there, and we were hoping to have a video up before the end of the year, but we sort of took on a big project that ended up as 2 60 minute long videos that we're still working on 💀we're really excited for them, but unfortunately it looks like they'll probably go up in early january! so sorry for the long hiatus there. happy holidays to all of you and thanks for watching this year! we'll see you guys a-next time. EDIT: also no, saf is not pregnant - she would not have been consuming cake with brandy in it if she were!
Thanks for the update! Excited for what's coming next👽
Its the desert on Christmas day and rarely eaten other than that. To see the fire we usually pour a lot more brandy on then turn off the lights. My family has it with custard and tbh no-one really makes it we just buy them in supermarkets. Well done
So great to see yous both back best start to my holidays 😁Happy Christmas to yous both and all the best for 2023
Take your time ❤
What about the live streams????!!!!??? I miss the fam!! 😭
Safiya looks more and more like Morticia everyday and I’m here for it
I was thinking the same thing
HONESTLY, she's so beautiful she reminds me if morticia sm
RIGHTTT, she looks beautiful
i literally was about to comment that the two of them were giving very strong gomez & morticia addams vibes!!!!
no. she is morticia
Fun fact! Wine glasses used to be much smaller than modern glasses in that time period. It would have been 5 to 7 times smaller in the 1800's! So if your glaze/sauce was too watery and alcohol heavy, that's the reason.
Oh that's pretty important to note 😭😂
“Two shots of vodka” vibes
Legal amount In a wine glass is still 125ml in the uk .
@@melz36uk sippy cup sized wine.... we are not toddlers! Lololo
Depends on the glass too! A red wine glass is vastly bigger than a glass for sherry!
Our students sang this song during the holiday concert,but one sweet child didn’t quite know the words. He proudly shout/sang “so bring us some friggen pudding!”
Oh, he knew what he was doing and I salute him 😂😂😂
Soak your dried fruit. Most people use alcohol (rum, brandy and cognac) to soak the dried fruit and peel, but you can use orange juice or strong black tea. This helps both puddings and cakes cook with the steam from the fruit as it cooks. A lot of people who don't like fruit cake because it is dry simply because it is not made with soaked fruit.
Great point!
Well, it's already done and they most likely won't try it again, but a very good tip for others willing to make their own figgy pudding creations :)
Wtf as an American it would've NEVER occurred to me to soak dried fruit in black tea, let alone to then put it in a cake. THAT SOUNDS F***ING DELICIOUS THANK YOU FOR THE SUGGESTION
there are 3 different renditions of "god rest ye merry gentlemen" in this video - can you find them all? 🙃
This song has been living collectively in me and my girlfriend’s heads for the last 7 years! We first heard an all brass horn version our first Christmas together looking at Christmas lights in Philadelphia’s miracle on 13th street. It was kind of an inside joke we shared because we took a video of the lights and the song was playing in the background but neither of us knew what it was. We both heard the unmistakable melody in this video and it completely took us back. I took to the comments hoping to see the music listed after my failed shazam attempt! God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen thank you Safiya and happy holidays!🎉
Oh they’re all so cute! Lmao I love this kind of interaction!!
Use are such a beautiful couple ❤❤ my relationship goals xxx
Honestly, I was a bit sad that no one stated anything about the "mostly dead" comment as Tyler was taking the figgy pudding out of the closet. Miracle Max approves.
As a brit, I never realised Christmas pudding wasn't a thing in other countries. That's so fascinating!
*also Saf looks stunning, like a Gibson girl version of Morticia Addams. Very beautiful. Now I just want a video of Saf doing different decade renditions of Morticia x
I think is something like "pan dulce" in latin America
I only just learnt that Americans don't have xmas crackers, would have thought they'd love that kinda thing!
In Denmark we eat a sort of rice pudding with vanilla, almonds and whipped cream. The almonds get chopped, all except for one, and the one who finds the whole almond gets a small present. It’s so good
@@jj-if6it As an American, when I first learned about Christmas Crackers, I was surprised for the exact same reason lol
@@saragiani7545 there's capirotada, which does include raisins a lot of the time.
I love that Christmas Pudding is an utter novelty in the US but here in Britain it’s iconic.
It is a staple in my annual Christmas activities and I am having a culture shock that it isn't commonplace in the English speaking world! More brandy was required!
@@Agodders It’s common here in Australia and I would assume NZ, Canada and a lot of other English influenced/English speaking places too. Maybe cause America generally likes to be more seperate and has less English/European influence than other English speaking places
@@charliev4156 not common in Canada at all! Maybe it got lost when they crossed the ocean this direction...
Is it supposed to look the way Saf and Tyler’s looked? Cuz it looked like a large pumice stone 😂
@@caitlinstone596 not to the more frequently eaten now, ours are much darker from treacle/molasses. We also cook them in solid containers like deep bowls so they don't loose the outer layer of cakey mix to the cloth which I think is why it has that rough outer later like they did. Ours are usual smooth and glossy.
As a Devonian native, it’s pronounced Devon-sheer 😊
Some tips from my mum -
1) it’s good with warm ambrosia custard or brandy cream. It definitely needs moisture with it.
2) the candied peel it better when it’s chopped very little.
3) you get a better flaming effect when you heat up the brandy in a ladle until it’s turning to vapour - it’s the vapour that ignites
4) if you do try it again, do it in a pudding basin with a circle of greese-proof paper in a slow cooker
Good try though guys! If you want to carry on the theme of steamed puddings I highly recommend Spotted Dick (it can be done in the microwave in like 5 mins)
Ohhh they should do a pudding series and make bread and butter pudding too! 😄
As a New Yorker, Cool!
They specifically wanted to follow a 1800’s recipe and instructions though
Hello fellow devonian!!!👋 I had a giggle at the pronunciation too lmaooo
Fellow Devonian here 👋 custard is good but in my opinion you can't beat clotted cream. It's how everyone in my family prefers it!
"Let's get figgy with it" would be quite fitting for a holiday merch drop 😂😁 I love the channel!
Lol next year you guys need to do that!
No, u don’t love the channel
@@yassnation3967 LMAO
@@mmmkayari I speak truthfully instead of all these liars who’s are bads
My family would have this every year for Christmas. Light it on fire and sing Joy to the World as it's walked into the dining room. I highly recommend it with brandy butter/hard sauce!
2 things: 1. I actually only found out that figgy pudding and plum pudding was the same thing as an adult.
2. Kinda shocked at the alcohol content and how my family found this dish appropriate for consumption by children under 10.
When you boil liquor/wine, the alcohol is boiled out of it, so you can't get drunk or anything from it.
They probably considered it a good way to get the children who were very likely wound up by the festivities to settle into bed quickly and let the adults have the evening. Also back in the day, wine glasses were much smaller so it would not be this boozy.
Well…at least it’s a more natural way for the kids to calm down than benadryl? 😅
With the amount of alcohol topping that pudding, who wouldn't be a little extra joyful?!
@@iseetheWAYVision 17:09
Glasses in the period (wine and otherwise) were smaller then they are today. So you’ve added about 3 times as much liquor into the sauce as it actually calls for. Should be nice and strong! Lol
Go festive, go boozy. This is the season.🍾
Yes you can buy it in any supermarket in Britain during the Xmas season.
Pudding doesn't mean a specific dish, but anything which is steamed, the steam is the key to what is a pudding not the content.
This has answered a few questions I've had for quite a while, thank you.
@@JoeyKlu in some parts of the UK pudding can also be a synonym for the dessert course which I think contributes to confusion abroad.
Same in Australia, I've been having Christmas pudding for dessert this week 🎄
Pudding is just another word for dessert, for me at least 😅
@@natalieroberts5572 Yorkshire pudding?!?
the figgy pudding just dangling is such a mood
Saf really does looks like a very happy Morticia! And glowing with that beautiful chaotic energy she has in Tyler's videos. Love it!
Christmas pudding is still an expected xmas MUST in many of the colonies, we had one today. Never had a xmas without one in 44 years. ETA: They have replaced suet with butter for the most part.
My mums till uses suet for Christmas pudding and mince pies but it’s a bit harder to get nowadays
I prefer butter or even butter flavored crisco shortening. A mix of the two is even better.
We still use suet! Easily found at the butchers counter
The colonies?? Do British people still say that shit?
@@ViciousVelociraptor i kinda assumed they meant the american colonies? as in, they’re from maine or something and it’s still common there. i know it’s definitely not common on the west coast given this is like the first time i’ve heard of this
We call it a Christmas pudding in the uk , pour brandy on it and set it on fire and serve with cream or Ice cream,
Or custard! Nom.
Ye my fellow British person
Or brandy cream
Brandy butter and rum sauce instead of cream/ice cream in this house :D
@@MissMagic 🤢 lol
I love that even when Tyler is narrating, Safiya can't help but do hand motions.
Reminds me of a funny family story: one of my relatives (cousins?) was in the merchant marines during the Korean war, and during Christmas, my great grandmother decided to bake him a fruit cake to send to him. The problem was, my family were all strict methodists, and never even used alcohol even to cook with. My grandma was not to be deterred though, and bought a bottle of brandy which she completely drained into the cake. It was apparently QUITE a scene when the mail clerk brought a package reeking of alcohol to the straight laced methodist kid (and it apparently make him VERY popular in his unit)
dont know if anyone else does this but every year when my grandmother makes christmas pudding, we all take turns to mix and you make a wish while stiring. she says its tradition lmao
Sounds like grandma was good at getting the family to pitch in 😂
My grandmother did the same with her kids!
We put money in ours wrapped in greaseproof paper. One £1, one 50p and one 20p. But as I was the only kid, everyone just always gave me theirs if I didn't get it haha.
When you were lighting the pudding I was willing you to turn the lights off. That was part of the tradition in our house, mainly because then you can actually see the blue flaming brandy so it’s more impressive. The whole flaming pudding was a big part of Christmas dinner when I was a kid and we always ooh’d and ahh’d as my mum brought it in (the early 90s we’re a simpler time lol). Also definitely have cream or something with the pudding because it’s so rich. That sauce was mental, probably best left in the 1800’s!
The reason the sauce was so thin was because they put _WAY_ too much liquid in it. Wine glasses were about 100ml back between the 1800s and 1850s, not the 10+ oz of today.
Fun fact:
“Figgy” was a term for *any* dried fruit. It didn’t have to be figs. Banana chips are technically “ figgy”. It’s not limited to “ raisins”
sorta like how back in the day apple was just the general term for fruit, not just specifically for apples
Interesting!!
Sorta like the exact fact they stated in this video?
@@Ray_Vun did not know that! That’s so interesting!
@@notthecutestanimal8849 they left out that it can be any dried fruits and only went with the raisins, currants, cranberries…
I live in Australia and every year my family mixes together a big tub of vanilla ice cream and a good ol’ store bought Christmas pudding to make our own pudding ice cream! It’s great when we want that pudding taste but can’t stand to eat anything hot during our boiling summer Christmas’ 😅
As a British person, I find this surreal. They are treating making a Christmas Pudding like food archeology.
I have this all the time at this time of year, I don't often make it from scratch though.
Yep it’s definitely not a thing in the US outside of being a lyric in that song.
Agreed!
As a sheltered American I can confirm that this is all very confounding😅
Is the beef suet shelf stable???
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@@AustinLEN I usually use veggie suet (works the same), but yes it lasts about a year. Just lives in a cupboard, doesn't need to be in the fridge.
@@motheatenmouse6094 thank you 😊
British person here, I used to make the Delia Smith version every year until gluten wanted me dead, Waaaay more alcohol and a few more spices, smells like Christmas to me and everyone has to stir and make a wish xx
My mum managed to make me a gluten free one! I actually recommend less spices as the gluten free flour has no flavour and it ends up being quite overpowering and rich.
Same in our family!
I was actually making that very recipe when this video popped up. It's now boiling away for the next 8 hours...
Your punch sauce came out so strong because wine glasses were *much* smaller in the Victorian era than now 🤣. Another traditional sauce for Christmas pudding is Bird's custard, which is my favourite 😉
This is one of my family Christmas traditions. We serve ours with a brandy cream sauce so you get less of a citrus and more of a creamy vanilla vibe with it. I never liked it as a kid, but love it as an adult.
I’m English and I never realised that other countries don’t have Figgy Pudding at Christmas! We tend to call it Christmas Pudding not Figgy Pudding, but it feels mandatory to have on Christmas Day. Most people buy them pre-made so it was super fun to watch you guys make one. When we light it we sing “we wish you a Merry Christmas” until the flame goes out. I’ve never liked it because I don’t like fruit in a dessert, but we have a chocolate version now that’s just the same shape that you warm up to eat. MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄
Yes! We have the chocolate one in Aus too! So good!
Yeah, here in the US, it either died out or never caught on. I remember asking my parents what figgy pudding was when I was a kid (back in the days of dinosaurs and dial-up) and neither of them knew, just saying it was something people used to eat hundreds of years ago
YASSS TASTING HISTORY!!! I'm so pleased by the idea that you guys watch Max too!!
They were 100% sipping the brandy during those 3.5 hours of tending to the pudding. Saf said “wow” SO MANY times-
I don't think Saf would ;) 06:19
I love Max Miller!
I love seeing Max get the recognition he deserves! 🎉
He’s my moms cousin so seeing him in one of my favorite RUclipsrs vids gave me intense whiplash 😭😭😭 very deserved though, of course
As a Mrs. Crocombe stan from The English Heritage, I’m very happy you showed her 🙌🏻
I remember growing up, our British neighbour made plum pudding one year for us. Set it on fire and everything. I remember loving it. Never had it since though. Seems like a tedious process. 😬❤️
@@paulburley7993 Never seen one here in Sweden. Hmm. Must search better! lol
@@LessThanThree76 I had to delete my first comment as I accidentally edited it. In Canada and the US plum (figgy) pudding is more commonly referred to as Christmas pudding. They're not difficult to make. We always do our own and they are served with a dark brown sugar sauce with or without brandy. Just look for a recipe for Christmas pudding. Some very old recipes as they are using can be a bit dodgy to say the least!
@@paulburley7993 So a more modern recipes are to be preferred then, yes? Thanks for all the info btw. I might be brave enough next year to make one. And who knows, maybe I don’t like it anymore. Haha.
@@LessThanThree76 You WILL like it because they are DELECTABLE. There are lots of recipes online under Christmas pudding and as I say they are not at all difficult to make. You may make ahead of time as they age very well increasing in complexity as do fruit cake. We make our own fruit cake too and begin no later than August. We even age the fruit peel in rum and brandy before making cake. Mom put it all together and I did the stirring and mixing as that can be manually quite taxing. Our loaves are generously and repeatedly wrapped with brandy and rum (try spiced rum) for 3-4 months and stored in our "cold room." Do try this wonderful dessert and you may begin your own family tradition. Cheers and bon aperitif 😃🇨🇦
And yes I have found that most all these old recipes for any type of cuisine are just no longer relevant. All cultures and societies have greatly improved the ingredients and methodology. Fun to look at but no longer relevant.
In the US, especially in the South, fruitcake was the Christmas tradition. It's a rich, dense, molasses, spiced cake with lots of candied fruit, nuts, raisins, currants, candied orange and citron peel. It was baked a couple of months early, wrapped up, and stored in a cool place. Periodically, either brandy, rum, or bourbon whiskey was applied. People make jokes about it, because there have been so many bad fruitcakes sold in stores, but a good old fashioned fruitcake is delicious and festive.
I’m English and we eat Christmas pudding every year, I had no idea that this was a uniquely British thing. I have never made it from scratch though and now I’m second guessing exactly why we eat it, it really doesn’t sound appetising 😂
it’s possibly just a uniquely not american thing cuz we eat a ton of it during australian christmas!
@@Hello-fv6ul Lots of people eat in Canada, too (mostly if you have UK heritage).
So additional fact: this tradition is super old, during the 12 days of Christmas (a time of feasting and merry making and rest starting the 25th to a little into the new year) in the, I believe, 1300s on in the u.k. where they would celebrate a saint on each day. A variation of this has existed since then with more ingredients added over time as things became cheaper and easier to procure. There was one similar to the Mardi gras cake only with a pea instead of a small baby. Where on the 12th day the town would have a feast and whoever found the pea would be lord of the day. Which allowed whoever found it do act as though they were the actual lord of the day. This tradition also existed in ancient Rome in a slight variation allowing a slave to control the household for a day. Additionally caroling would be townsfolk going around houses singing a selection (very small) of songs to neighbors and requesting items to keep them full for winter and could become violent. The violent part still existed in Georgian and victorian england. There is a documentary called "the 12 days of Christmas" if you would like more not so ADHD written information. Opposite to that is something called the dark History of the 12 days of Christmas if your looking for more excitement in your life beyond watching historians role play medieval presents and falconers. The head of the pig, additionally, you've probably seen this through in older pictures of Christmas dinners. It was a tradition kept from before the Roman chatolic church came through forcing conversion or death as such with st. Patty exercising the snakes (technically meaning demons and there was an ancient Irish goddess I believe whose symbol was also of such so just expelling pagans). It was originally a big boar and not a domestic pig that would help with feasting. Definitely an interesting look into if you like history and want to seek the information yourself.
Warning! If you are allergic to lobster, crab, shrimp or shellfish, you will almost certainly be allergic to eating bugs
Wow, my husband is allergic to shrimp, cockroaches, and dust. Didn’t think the first two would have anything in common.
@@Sarah_Spang how did he find out he was allergic to cockroaches. Just curious 😅
@lmcg9022 not sure about them but I found out I was allergic to cockroaches during environmental allergy testing
@@sagejones5219 Same cockroaches are unfortunately a common part of the environment so you get test for a cockroach allergy during an environment allergy test.
The lighting of the pudding is done with the lights turned off so it has a better ooo factor. Glad you liked it!
In Italian culture (I'm a decendent of italians), we have something very similar to this, but much easier to make. LOL It's called a "baba rum" cake (can be translated as drooling rum). It has this name because its batter is prepared with raisins and lots of rum and after it's baked, we pour a sauce made of rum and sugar. It's delicious, but can get you a little loopy.
Safiya: "It is a stunt!"
Me, a British person who's very aware of Christmas/figgy pudding: "Oh, lord"
The brandy sauce makes the pudding good most of the time
i agree, i don't bother with christmas pudding unless there's brandy butter going around :)
Watching you guys try a dense, boozy, steamed pudding for the first time was a blast 😂. I guess Americans don’t do Christmas pudding, which had never occurred to me. We’re all learning something!
Also bless you with your flaming tablespoon of brandy, my dad always used a ladle. You have to turn the lights off for the fire part!
I remember as a kid when my nan would bring out her Christmas pudding and I was always mad us kids weren't allowed to have any of it because she would feed it various alcohols for NINE MONTHS!!!! I don't think she hung hers though, she stopped making it because she didn't want to put so much effort into making something only a handful of people ate. Also it got people "Merry", veeeeerrrry merry.
My Great Aunt had a neighbour who fed her Christmas fruit cake with alcohol for 9 months plus. She visited when we were visiting my Great Aunt and insisted all the adults have a big slice. Everyone ended up a bit... overcome 😅
Us kids were really little so we didn't have any luckily.
I forgot all about that! Yes my Aunt used to make it and did that. (Scottish) It was very powerful! 🙂
I just saw you guys in Tivoli Gardens two days ago!!
Was telling my husband a story, saw a familiar face I couldn’t place, and then saw another right next to. And in the middle of my story told him: “That was Safiya and Tyler!”
According to my husband it looked like I short circuited 😂
Tivoli Gardens as in Denmark??
This video is just what I’ve been needing man
You guys should do a collab with Tasting History. That would be awesome!
I may have to look up there vloggers
Safiya gets so excited around Tyler it’s adorable
This pudding is still a tradition in ireland - not sure about the rest of europe - and we light it on fire too🎄🔥
Oooo i never realised america didnt have christmas pud i just assumed it was the same as the uk
Love the old recipe choice! So glad y'all gave a shoutout to Tasting History with Max Miller too. His channel is wonderful and I recommend it to anyone and everyone.
Brit here! Just made our Christmas pudding with my mum today, we use my nan's recipe which is quite a last minute one but she made sure we could still get some brandy in it 😂 We have it every year, and I couldn't do Christmas without one!
I think you should find one online, Christmas pudding is best aged, it's dark and moist. It's also served hot which might be why it didn't light up well
I love Max's channel, cool that you guys tried this one! Two worlds colliding rn
Max's? do you mean tyler?
@@daisiesonme1 max as in max miller the guy they got the recipe from
@@tabitha2397 oh that makes sense, sorry!
That Beeton's cookbook was really famous in its time and I've even heard of it many times! It's cool that she stayed relevant 150 years later.
Wine glasses were considerably smaller in the day so that might have thrown a few factors off but figgy pudding is tricky! Excellent first go
When I was younger (like 18) I was obsessed with wanting to cook a traditional Victorian Xmas meal and do everything they would've done to celebrate Xmas back then, including to make Figgy Pudding. I remember my dad being so against the idea because he despised Figgy Pudding. My dad was originally from the Ukraine and his grandmother who he said was a phenomenal cook would make it every Xmas and make him eat it and he just absolutely hated it. Still never made it to this day or had my traditional Victorian xmas...maybe one day.
Honestly same, I still want to make traditional and accurate Victorian recipes and then I look at some of them and… gives me spaghetti-o hot dog olive jello cake vibes. I’m still determined to make an authentic Victorian dinner and ball some day 🤣
@@blackthornelder lol that is the perfect description! It just seems like it would be so fun to make the food, play the games, learn the dances, dress up like they did, and of course attempt to change my heavy New Jersey accent to an old Victorian English one (this last one might not work out so well lol). Hope you and your family have a safe and Merry Christmas and New Year!
Please do it and let us know how it goes!
Christmas season is coming back up. This could be your year!
Safiya "Let's explore bugs." My ADHD mind connecting with hers through the screen and understanding she meant baking with them right away.
my favorite part of this video has to be tyler chasing saf through the house with the sack of pudding on a clothes hanger, and then tyler proudly posing next to his pudding hanging in the closet.
Ok but where did Tyler get that hoodie?!?
I was wondering the same. It reminds me of my favorite ice cream lol
im wondering the same thing! tag me if you find out XD ive been trying to figure out the brand near the hemline but can't work it out for the life of me!
I came here to ask the same question 😂
Same! 😂
Same, if you should find out let us know. Looks like the first name on the bottom might be Milly.
I love hearing more of Carly! She is funny and a great addition to the team! WE WANT MORE CARLY!!!!!
This whole video was full on culture shock to me.
My mum makes Christmas Pudding for the family every year, it's a tradition that we all have to have 'a stir' of the mix for good luck. She uses the Delia Smith recipe.
I also always have suet in my kitchen as a staple. Suet pastry is elite.
My mum makes this every Christmas, and it's always a hit, so I thought I'd give you a few tips!
1) Put your raisins, currents, peel, canned cherries etc (I've never seen apple in it!) in a big bowl and cover it with a combination of the alcohol you're using and some orange juice to keep it moist. My mum usually uses scotch/brandy and all the dregs of random spirits that we have left over from the year. Then she covers the bowl and leaves it soaking for at least 3 WEEKS, adding more juice/liquor if it dries out. This way the fruits swell with liquid, providing more flavour (like marinating them) and they are also rehydrated to avoid a dry pudding! We often have nuts in ours too, which you 'marinate' with the fruits.
2) The ratio of the fruit to batter seemed slightly off, but that might be because the fruit wasn't soaked. It needs more flour to hold it together and give it a slightly more cake-like texture.
3) Just because it looks more aesthetic, I'd use a cake bowl like the one shown. It avoids 'extra ball bag(!)' and looks much smoother and nice.
4) We use brown muscovado sugar and brown sugar because it's stickier and richer, which gives it just the right rich Christmassy taste.
5) To light it, make sure the pudding has been heated up and has enough alcohol in it to begin with. I always push down the middle of the top of the pudding to create a small indent where you can put the alcohol so it's easier to light. Then you pour a big ladle of brandy (or any spirit you have) like the size in the video and then put a lighter/match to the pudding. You can also heat up the spirit in the ladle and then set it alight before pouring, but I find the first method more effective.
I hope you give it another go because I think you'd love a British Christmas pudding done right! :)
Loving Tyler's energy in this one! He looks so joyful throughout the video 😄
I always enjoy how you all explain the history or give added details of what is being done
Yall bring me so much comfort and joy. Love to see you both happy
As a brit i am both mortified and entertained at you two making Christmas pudding. A: the earlier you make it, the better. And B: YOU FORGOT THE BRANDY BUTTER AND CLOTTED CREAM!!! BLASPHEMY!!! 😂😂😂
Plus you have to douse it in brandy first!
What is clotted cream? Sounds gross.
@@codename495 clotted cream is basically like butter just more creamy and lighter/fluffier.
You guys are the ultimate Christmas gift 🎁
I have a grandmother from the UK, and for her Christmas Pudding, she makes a brown sugar and rum sauce, which is amazing.
As an English lady, we have Figgy Pudding (now just called Christmas Pudding) every year. It's a tradition.
Also - great wine choice, its one of my favourites!
I love Safiya's bafflement at the suggestion of Tyler putting safety first 😂
Love the Safler/Tyfia and Max Miller crossover!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Saf, Tyler, and Cosmo xx
Oooo I'm so excited!! I love watching yall make old fashioned recipes!! 😁😁💗💗
What an excellent Christmas gift!!! So happy to see you all having fun ❤️💚❤️💚
If you make it again, I would suggest using a modern recipe 😂 we generally steam them rather than boil now, and use less flour and more fruit, so it tends to be lighter and less chewy. Also usually brandy sauce is more creamy now. Glad you enjoyed it
Oh man, I would love to give you guys a proper modern figgy pudding recipe - we modified the one you can find in the Vedge cookbook so that it's not vegan, and you can probably figure out the changes that work for you. It's really good, and a holiday staple for us! They're popular in a lot of the Commonwealth countries, and a good figgy pudding with figgy caramel sauce and cream or ice cream is DIVINE. And props for using Mrs Crocombe and Max!
Love Tyler's sweatshirt!
Does anyone know where it is from?
@@ashlyhoffmaster4699 I wish
Last bit of tipsy Safiya is EVERYTHING!!!
My sister got me fiendish merch for my birthday & gave it to me early & the same day you guys upload 🥹 love the videos Tyler! I hope you keep this channel up, I love this content!
Was laughing all the way through this 🤣🤣 (also for some reason Safiya was giving me Goth Jennifer Coolidge vibes. I have no explanation, but it IS intended as a compliment)
This is so interesting! I had no idea that christmas pudding was figgy pudding. Its suuuper traditional and suuuper common to have this at christmas in the UK. My dad, aunt and uncle will be having it on Christmas day! And most nana's would make theirs for the family in the months leading up to the holidays.
Also if you can you should try and get a good shop bought one from the UK - they're really good!
This was genuinely so fun to watch and I laughed The whole time
Tyler's sweatshirt reminds me of mint choco chip which me likey.
I love this series of cooking experiments! It’s so fun and entertaining 🥰
Saf was very much living her inner Morticia Adams here and I'm lovin' it :D
Merry Christmas, Safiya and Tyler!
As someone who used to make Christmas pudding every year with my nana, this video was very funny to me and also brought back a lot of really nice memories 💖 merry Christmas guys! 🎄
Its the desert on Christmas day and rarely eaten other than that. To see the fire we usually pour a lot more brandy on then turn off the lights. My family has it with custard and tbh no-one really makes it we just buy them in supermarkets. Well done. Also it's only ever called Christmas pudding
Merry Christmas! All the best!
Yesss I am on board for ants. Get one of those clear ant colony things that you can watch them tunnel and stuff!!!!
I love Tasting History with Max Miller! So happy to see you following his recipe
So much agreed!
Tyler going on about how Atora is this super old, vintage cooking ingredient that's really upsetting, and I'm sat here watching this with two boxes in my fridge right now 😂
"Saff's pushing and I'm pulling." what do you think you're doing?! Delivering a baby?! The word choices😂😂😂
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, dear Tyler & Safiya!
Love the dedication, team. Amazing work.
Saf's Day 1 look was pure Morticia!
For a first try, you guys did a fantastic job in the figgy pudding. The more brandy, the better the pudding.
It's so hard to choose because I love the videos from this channel, but this might be my favorite one yet!! ❤ ❤
I live in the UK and Christmas pudding is a staple here. My Nan makes ours and begins the cooking and soaking progress end October. I always love it being lit alight at the end of dinner
I have been a long time watcher of both you and Safiya, and I just wanted to comment how great it is that Carly is on the team. I love her little inputs, and I am so glad you have found someone that can help behind the scenes. Overall, the move to NC seems to have suited both of you, and you both are radiating joy and contentness (I know that's not a word, lol) Just so happy for you :) (I am from NC, and miss it dearly) Merry Christmas!!
Contentedness is though! You basically had it! Cheers and hope you have a Merry Christmas 🎄
@@EyeGlassTrainofMind aaahh I knew I was close. Thanks :)
One of our Christmas guests brings figgy pudding every year, it's made a year in advance! Then a cup of brandy is poured over it once a week