Christmas pudding

We made this at home but I did not now it is a British thing. That makes all the videos too annoying to watch; lovely cream lovely butter, grams this, grams that, 50 grams, 50 grams, 50 grams, 150 grams,  grams grams grams, lovely, lovely, pop it in the oven, pop it on the stove, pop it in the microwave, pop, pop, pop.

Here's the thing. You take a bunch of dried fruit, whatever you keep around, raisins, prunes, apricots, dehydrated pineapple, cranberries, candied ginger, all the odd stuff that you've got, and all the pecans or mixed nuts that you've got, and hold that together with standard egg, butter, sugar, flour, baking powder, and milk with vanilla. The one difference with regular cake is fresh soft bread crumbs, or chunks like bread pudding. Use your favorite spices, nutmeg, cinnamon. Duh.

You don't even have to write this down. You don't even have to measure or weigh and there is no concern whatsoever as how to cook it. bake it, microwave it, pressure pot it, steam it stove stop, camp out fire, it's so basic, so fundamental that everything works.

Cook in a buttered/floured bowl so it's shaped like a dome.

The best video I saw was Jamie Oliver who used suet instead of butter and added diced fresh rosemary.

Soak it with rum or with whiskey.

Set the thing on fire if you want to.

Make a sauce with butter, cream, sugar and vanilla.

For the video ↓, turn off sound and turn up speed X2.

Instantpots come with a rack to lift out bowls like this, but here a strap is fashioned from aluminum foil. They're steaming the cake, the pressure is superfluous.