ROBERT’S LOW-CARB BLACK FOREST FRUITS CHRISTMAS PUDDING.

Ingredients:
1 crumbled loaf of ‘instant bread’ coloured with gravy browning.
100g / 1 cup of a mixture of soya flour, vital wheat gluten and ground flax meal
½ cup wheat bran
200g / 8 oz grated hard unsalted butter
200g / 8 oz of thawed, frozen summer or black forest fruits
1 small chopped cooking apple
2 small grated carrots
2 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoonful of vanilla essence
Rind of 1 lemon grated
Rind of 1 orange grated
1 cup of broken walnuts
1 cup of flaked almonds
1 cup of splenda
2 tablespoons brandy
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 eggs
¼ cup of bitter beer
2 tablespoons of diabetic orange marmalade
Juice of 1 lemon

Method:

1. Combine all dry ingredients.
2. Work in the grated butter.
3. Mix in the fruit, apple and carrot.
4. Add the eggs, brandy, lemon juice, marmalade and beer until moist but not wet. (Taste mixture for sweetness, acidity, bitterness and spiciness. Adjust to taste with sweetener, lemon juice, beer and all spice. You may need to add more bran if the mixture becomes too wet. )
5. Turn into a pudding bowl previously greased with butter.
6. Steam for at least 3 hours.
7. Store in fridge.
8. Steam for another 2 hours before serving (or microwave for 4 minutes)
9. Serve flamed with brandy
10. Dress with a simple custard made with only whole eggs and double (heavy or whipping) cream. This may be laced with brandy if you like.

© Robert Fletcher 21 Nov 04
Footnote: Ate it on Christmas day – it was absolutely delicious – and just like Christmas normal pudding.
It was a bit damp but micro-waving it cured that. Maybe less butter would be an idea.
Footnote 2: Making it again in 2007 but using dried fruits. This will up the carb count but it will still be lower than a commercial pudding.


Instant 'bread'.
Melt 30g (1oz) butter in a mixing bowl add to it 2 eggs and a little salt and baking soda. Mix in 100g (about 3 and a half oz) of almond flour. Add a litle cream if mixture too stiff. Butter a container, put mixture in it and nuke ofr a bout 1 min or until it has risen.

Looks stunning -- a bit of work for me to do straight away though

It's not as difficult as it looks. I made the one I will have a Christmas this morning. It takes longer to get all the ingredients together than it does to prepare.

Sounds lovley, could you send me some over, lol.

Does that mean that it will keep in the fridge for a month? I guess the brandy and beer help as preservatives - do you sprinkle with more brandy periodically the way we always did with a "normal" plum pudding or Xmas cake? And what in the world is "bitter" beer? I wonder if that's available in Canada (I'm not a beer drinker, as you can probably tell )?

Wha tis "instant bread"?

At the bottom he has the recipe for instant bread. It looks to me to be 3 minute vanilla cake.

Thanks rosethorn, I missed that.

hello Robert,

I'd like to make the above recipe for instant bread. Can you pls tell me

1. how much baking soda
2. Do i cook it in the oven or microwave ? How long do I cook it for ?
3. How long does it keep for

Many thanks !

It sounds like it cooks in the microwave, although 1 minute sounds a little short.

It also sounds like 1-2 servings so you'd probably eat it within a day or two.

thanks Nancy, I'm off to make it now.
btw - there are no carbs in this right ?