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How To – assemble a summer pudding


00:00:04hello I’m Georgie from Jamie’s food team

00:00:07and I’m going to show you how to

00:00:08assemble a summer pudding so to start

00:00:10we’re gonna line our 1.5 liter pudding

00:00:13basin and to do that you once gets a

00:00:15little bit of kitchen paper the tiny

00:00:18bits of olive oil and just just enough

00:00:21to give a tiny little coating not tons

00:00:25just so the cling film what’s gonna line

00:00:27it with a doesn’t stick so what this

00:00:30around the pudding basin and then get

00:00:33your cling film and you want to

00:00:35crisscross it so you don’t have any gaps

00:00:40put it in like so make sure you’ve got

00:00:42an overhang as well because you’re going

00:00:45to want to cover the top of the pudding

00:00:47with the king film so leave a bit of an

00:00:49overhang like this then just break this

00:00:52off and do the same on the other side a

00:00:56ninety degree angle like this now I’ve

00:01:02got a loaf of bread hair which I’ve

00:01:04sliced up into 110 to me slices and I’ve

00:01:07cut off the crusts and I’ve just spread

00:01:11out a thin layer of seedless jam on one

00:01:16side so there’s a cling film so push the

00:01:20cling film down inside the pudding basin

00:01:23and make sure there’s no gaps at all and

00:01:27make sure it goes all the way down

00:01:29inside and you’ve still got enough

00:01:31overhang to cover the top and you just

00:01:34want to line the inside of the pudding

00:01:36basin with the the buttered bread almost

00:01:39overlap them slightly because as the

00:01:43fruit mixture goes in and it’s quite wet

00:01:46it’ll push it all against each other and

00:01:48you just don’t want any gaps at all so

00:01:50don’t worry if you almost fan out the

00:01:52bread it will look quite chunky to start

00:01:57with but as you put the filling in and

00:01:59it’s a sits this will get really soggy

00:02:02and it will sit really flat against the

00:02:04mould so make sure that’s all quite even

00:02:09and overlapped and sitting quite high up

00:02:11give your hands a little wash

00:02:14make sure you still got a couple of

00:02:15slices left to go on the top and I’ve

00:02:20got my fruit here which had about a

00:02:23five-minute simmer and I’ve got a

00:02:24slotted spoon so I’m going to leave all

00:02:26the lovely juices behind in the pan and

00:02:29I’m just use my spoon to spoon in my

00:02:32lovely fruit my summer fruits I’m

00:02:36pushing it down as you go with the back

00:02:38of the spoon and in between just

00:02:42drizzling a little bit of elderflower

00:02:44let’s get a spoon you don’t have to be

00:02:47too precise don’t worry and just scatter

00:02:50around on the bread on the fruit so you

00:02:58want to have four tablespoons of

00:03:02elderflower in total

00:03:03keep going pushing it down and you can

00:03:08see there’s just enough juice in that

00:03:09I’ll soak through the bread you won’t

00:03:11have a completely soaked through vibrant

00:03:14red bread but then with the remaining

00:03:15juice you can reduce that afterwards and

00:03:17pour it over the top so pull one more

00:03:19tablespoon of elderflower cordial around

00:03:22like that and then you want to finish

00:03:25off with your remaining slices try not

00:03:28to crumple up you’re thinking too much

00:03:32then get your last two bits of bread and

00:03:34again Jam side down just put them over

00:03:38the top brilliant and what you want to

00:03:43cover the top with the cling film and

00:03:48don’t worry at the moment it will look

00:03:50quite messy quite angular as you weigh

00:03:54it down you put in the fridge or mold

00:03:56together so cover it completely now what

00:04:00you want to do is get a plate that fits

00:04:02on top of your basin push it down and

00:04:05then put something heavy on top that’s

00:04:08gonna keep it weighted down like you

00:04:10could use another Bowl if you have it or

00:04:12if that takes up too much room I mean

00:04:14that’s a great weight or if you have a

00:04:16jar of jam or a pestle and then that’s

00:04:19really heavy and that’s how to prepare a

00:04:22summer fruit pudding all you need to do

00:04:24now is pop

00:04:25in the fridge leave overnight and then

00:04:26it’s ready to serve

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