Best wishes, Cover the bowls with a large piece of parchment paper, with a fold creased into the center. Thank you for your clear and easy to follow instructions! No Victorian-style holiday season is complete without a Christmas pudding gracing the table. The ingredients seem to work perfectly together. Here’s hoping some other reader can let us know if this might work. Merry Christmas , Mariana – I checked it out online, and it really looks like a useful kitchen tool, perfect for steaming puddings. Thank you for sharing. Cover the bowl with the parchment paper, with the fold over the center. It will cook your puddings slowly and a low heat also, so my best guess is that you will need to steam a larger pudding for 6 to 8 hours and a smaller one for 5 to 6 hours. If your scale doesn't take the mixing bowl's weight into account, weigh your pudding bowl first, so that you will later be able to determine how much the pudding by itself weighs. I’m going to line the dish with the corn husks, and cover with the pudding husks before using the foil cover. Asked by katemacbrad. And can I (for the sake of getting them all done) put them in a low oven in a water bath, all wrapped up as directed? Has anyone ever tried baking a steamed crockpot pudding WITHOUT the wax paper and foil cover? I am an American so the Christmas Pudding isn’t in my family’s traditions. Use the aluminum foil handle you've created to remove the bowl from the pressure cooker and leave to cool. I plan to serve one pudding at Thanksgiving and one at our New Year’s Eve party. My husband, however, is from New Zealand and misses his mum’s pud at Christmas dinner. Thank you very much for your answer, it was useful. Reduce the heat to the low setting and continue to cook on low for 6 more hours for the larger pudding, and for an additional 5 hours for the smaller pudding. Mairéad. I have been steaming my Christmas pudding for 20 years, a wonderful way to save time and no need to worry about topping up the water as in the old traditional method. Many thanks for your reply. Now cover the entire bowl with aluminum foil, with the closure over the top of the bowl. If you only have one crockpot, the second pudding can wait until after the first one has cooked. Steam the pudding for the amount of time appropriate for its size -- you will be steaming it first, then cooking at low pressure. Thank you so much for sharing the recipe in all its intricate details! Maria, Hi Maria – Since there is so much alcohol in the pudding mix, the cooked puddings are preserved in the airtight containers even when stored at room temperature. I haven’t done it for a few years, but every so often I get a hankering. Christmas tradition involves setting the pudding alight before serving. Lastly I am now looking at the ‘re-heating’. I came across your crock pot recipe for christmas pudding – love the idea of using a crock pot! Secondly, a huge thank you to Maireed of the blog Irish American Mom. Mairéad. Fill each of the bowls with pudding mixture to within one inch of the bowl rim. You could end up with a pudding that is underdone on the inside, but burnt on the outside. Best wishes, It took a little while for me to persuade the supposed dried fruit-haters of the family to try my homemade ones but one bowlful and the most staunch Christmas pudding opponents have been convinced of … Janice – I love my crock pot for steaming puddings. Best wishes, Mairéad. Mairéad. By chance I happened upon your web-site.