Baked Christmas Pudding and Rum Sauce
- Ready In:
- 1hr 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
-
Pudding
- 1⁄2 cup margarine or 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs, well beaten
- 2 1⁄2 cups mincemeat
- 2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄3 cup grape jelly
- 1⁄3 cup orange juice
- 1 orange, rind of, grated
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup walnuts (optional)
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Rum Sauce
- 1⁄2 cup butter, melted
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 cups cold water
- 2 teaspoons rum (or to taste) or 2 teaspoons rum flavoring (or to taste)
directions
-
Pudding:
- Cream margarine. Add sugar, eggs and mincemeat. Sift dry ingredients. Combine jelly, orange peel, juice and add alternately with flour mixture. Stir in 1 cup walnuts (optional). Pour into greased 10 inch tube pan. Bake in 325 degree oven for 80-90 minutes. Cool and unmold. (the mincemeat used in this recipe is canned mincemeat used for fruit pies, not ground meat).
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Sauce:
- Combine sugar, butter and cornstarch. Dissolve in water. Bring slowly to boiling point stirring occasionally. Cook until thickened. Remove from heat.
- Serve over pudding. If sauce has cooled at serving time reheat.
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