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With nostalgia at its peak, past episodes and/or culinary works of certain celebrities are now coming back to light so that we can experience Christmas in the best possible way. A trail that Bob Dylan‘s favorite Christmas recipe has just followed.
In the Christmas special ‘Christmas & New Year‘ (2006), holiday classics like ‘Silent Night’ or ‘Jingle Bells’ to carols like ‘A Party For Santa’ would be played. But what would really resonate on the show would be their most beloved recipe of the season: Figgy Pudding.
Figgy Pudding
Faced with great demand from his fans, Bob decided to make them happy by revealing the fig pudding recipe, which we present below. ‘I get a lot of letters asking for this: here’s my fig pudding recipe,’ he says on Theme Time Radio Hour.
‘First, 4 ounces plain flour, a pinch of salt, 4 ounces bread crumbs, 4 ounces crumbled suet, 1 teaspoon assorted spices, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 3 ounces dark brown sugar, 8 ounces chopped dried figs, fine zest and juice of 1 lemon, 2 tablespoons milk, and 2 beaten eggs,’ she explains.
Once you have the ingredients, ‘sift in the salt and flour and mix in the rest of the dry ingredients. Add the figs, lemon zest and juice, milk and beaten eggs, and beat well. The mixture should have a smooth dropping consistency. Put it in a greased 1-liter pudding dish, cover tightly and steam it for 3 hours,’ Dylan explains.
‘I like to serve it with hot golden syrup on top and a good drizzle of custard,’ he adds. ‘It makes me hungry just talking about it.’ So do we.
