Traditional Irish Christmas pudding with brandy butter recipe

Traditional Irish Christmas pudding recipe with brandy butter. Getty Images Irish Christmas pudding topped off with brandy butter is the perfect ending to your holidayContinuing our Christmas preparations, here's the ideal traditional Irish or Irish American Christmas pudding recipe. It doesn't contain any whiskey but there's plenty of brandy and Guinness to keep you happy.Read moreTraditional Irish Christmas cake recipe the whole family will enjoyPlumcake is still a traditional Christmas food in Ireland. (God knows why I hear you say!)It was often prepared a year before making its appearance at the holiday table. Plumcake (and fruitcake) is like a fine wine—it needs time to allow the full flavor to develop.Plumcake appears to have evolved from the plum pudding. A good plum pudding, whose recipe was a closely guarded family secret, was cooked then allowed to ripen in a cupboard where it grew hard and dry. The older it got, the harder it grew.Plum pudding was steamed prior to serving to...