I am searching for a recipe for Halloween pudding?

Question

My grandmother & mother used to make a pudding at Halloween, similar to Christmas pudding but a little drier and a bit more cake like. Does anyone out there have any recipes for something similar that may have been handed down?

Answer 1

Spicy steamed fruit pudding ;

6 ounces of flour 1, 1/2cups
1 teaspoonful of baking powder
3 ounces sugar 1/2 cup
3 ounces margarine 1/2 cup
2 large eggs
5 ounces mixed dried fruit 1 cup
1,tablespoon dark syrup
pinch of salt
1 heaped spoonful of mixed ground spices *
1 level tspoon of cinnamon *
1 tsp grated nutmeg *
1 teaspoon of ground ginger *
or 1 teasp chopped preserved ginger*
* vary spices according to taste !*
milk to mix

;Method;
in a large bowl beat margarine and sugar till fluffy add warmed syrup +beaten eggs
combine
add all other ingredients
mix thoroughly adding some milk to make a heavy dropping consistency .
put into pudding basin ( 2 pint )
cover with greaseproof cooking paper
and tie down well

steam for 1...1/2 hours (over continuous boiling water )
serve hot
Turned out onto a plate ,
serve with,;
raspberry coulis sauce, ( blood for Halloween LOL)
or custard
or cream

also good cold as a cake

Enjoy ...!
Have a great Hallo-ween

>^,,^<

Answer 2

The traditional pudding for Halloween and bonfire night in England (particularly in the north) is Parkin. What you describe sounds very much like it.
Here is the traditional recipe I have used for forty years.

225 g plain flour.
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 level teaspoon EACH of mixed spice, cinnamon and ground ginger
1 level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
225 medium oatmeal
175g black treacle
150g butter
100g brown sugar
1/4 pint of milk
1 standard egg beaten

Oil 18 cm square cake tin
Sift flour, salt,spice, cinnamon, ground ginger and bicarb.into a bowl. Add oatmeal . Make well in centre
Put butter, treacle, sugar and milk into saucepan.Stir over low heat till butter has melted
Pour into well and add egg. Stir mixture briskly, without beating, until smooth and evenly combined
Transfer to prepared tin. Bake in centre of moderate oven (180 centigrade) for one hour (or until cocktail stick inserted into centre, comes out clean)
Cool Parkin on wire rack.
The original recipe says store for one week in airtight tin, but you'll be short of time if you do not do this straight away.( It draws moisture into the cake.)
My children, now grown up still ask me to make it and I post it to them every year. I hope this is what you want. It is really easy and tasty.

Answer 3

Scots do Clootie Pud that might be similar?? Whatever, have a good halloween

Answer 4

I don't know how to make it but I would think you should find an english man and ask how tomake blood pudding. It is Halloween.

Answer 5

I got some pudding for ya

Answer 6

Make a pudding you like and give it a 'Halloween name' .... like "Spooky sponge pudding, spiked with strawberry sauce"!

Answer 7

Ear of bat, tooth of hag,
boil it in a wizard's bag,
juice of pumpkin, werewolf's claw,
boil it up but serve it raw,
dead man's hand, vampire's blood,
boil it down until it's good.