Making Christmas Pudding

Sunrise East Gloucester MA – Stir Up Sunday Christmas Pudding

Stir-Up Sunday! Making a Steamed Brandied Dried Fruit Christmas Steamed Pudding using Mary Berry’s British Baking Show Masterclass Recipe ( Netflix ). For dried fruits I am using dried Turkish apricots, raisins I dried myself from grapes in my dehydrator, Yellow raisins, dried cherries, dried cranberries, chopped apple, Orange rind grated, orange juice and chopped almonds with spices. You mix this all up together with fresh bread crumbs, self rising flour ( I made my own after looking it up on Google after I couldn’t find it in grocery store) , brown sugar, butter, and eggs. You seal it in a buttered bowl and steam for 7 hours. Then you store the pudding till Xmas Day Dinner and steam it before serving, turn out on plate and pour brandy over it and light it on fire and serves with a brandy hard sauce. Can’t wait! First time making one myself. My grandmother and stepmother always made them. The smell in the kitchen is wonderful. Apparently, in the U.K. the children stir the pudding and sing Christmas Songs about figgy pudding and we wish you a Merry Christmas etc. Doing my own Stir Up Dunday watching Rick Steve’s Christmas They Europe Travel Show! #christmaspudding #stirupsunday #steamedchristmaspudding #brandiedpudding #christmasdesserts #driedfruits #wewishyouamerrychristmas #ricksteveseurope #britishbakingshow #christmasbritishbakingmasterclass #maryberryrecipe #gloucesterma #cozycomfyhome #gloucestersunrise #backshore #eastgloucester #atlanticocean #atlanticdawn

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A lifelong meditator, learner and seeker, Melissa started her journey with a Hatha Yoga class in 1970 at age 17. Later after a stint in Art School and extensive travel, Melissa became a resident at Shree Muktananda Ashram in upstate NY studying Siddha Yoga meditation practices and is a disciple of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda and the Siddha Lineage Of Swami Muktananda and Bhagwan Nityananda. There she became acquainted with Shaiva Tantra Meditation from Kashmir, while studying with Dr. Paul Mueller Ortega, Dr.Douglas Brooks, Sally Kempton aka Swami Durgananda and many other teachers residing there at that time. Melissa also studied Tibetan Buddhist Practices of the Sakya Lineage with Luding Khenchen Rimpoche. Melissa has had a 40+ year meditation practice receiving many initiations and transmissions from many great contemporary teachers. Currently, since 2017 Melissa has been studying with Christopher Wallis a Sanskrit Scholar Phd covering “The Recognition Sutras”, “Vijnana Bhairava”, “Spanda Karikas”, and “Tantraloka”. Melissa is an avid reader, studying with the scholarly works of Christopher Wallis PhD, Alexis Sanderson Phd.Oxford University , Christopher Tompkins PHd Candidate University Of CA Berkley, and James Mallinson from SOAS in London. A member of Academia.org, Melissa keeps up with the latest translations of historic Yogic Writings by contemporary scholars. On the Hatha Yoga front, Melissa has studied Iyengar and Anusara Hatha Yoga in the 1990’s and later took her first hot yoga class 10 years ago with Suzanne Elliott in Merritt Island, FL, becoming a Raja Hot Core Hatha Yoga 500 hour Teacher in 2016 with Craig Villani. In 2017 she became a USA Yoga Coach and started judging video submissions in 2019. In 2018 Melissa studied with Jimmy Barkan Level 2 Hot Vinyasa Training in Ft Lauderdale and 2019 Adi Westerman’s Teaching 26/2 Plus Training. A member of the Original Hot Yoga Asso OHYA and a Hot Yoga Teacher at Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates in Epping NH www.steamhousenh.com and Blue Yoga Group in Swampscott, MA. “Melissa Abbott Yoga and Meditation” has a weekly Visionary Tantric Yoga & Yoga Nidra Podcast available on Spotify, ITunes Podcasts, Podbean and YouTube.

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