Modern Pressure Cooking: The Comprehensive Guide to Stovetop and Electric Cookers, with Over 200 Recipes

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So, instead of a chilled trifle, use the Christmas pudding, you have to work quickly so you’ve got your regular layers in but put the fried Christmas pudding layer in the middle of it. You will end up with a very sturdy length of foil which you can use to lower your pudding into the pressure cooker. In Catherine’s family, they place a sprig of holly on the top, foil-wrapped so not to put it directly in the pudding as it’s toxic. With 150 delicious recipes and beautiful colour photography throughout the Pressure Cooker Cookbook will revolutionise your mealtimes.

Mindblowingly, the pressure cooker was actually invented well before that, at the end of the 17th century! Dried fruit (in our Pressure Cooker Christmas Pudding video, Catherine and I used: raisins, sultanas, currants, chopped prunes, chopped pears, a mix of orange and lemon candied peel and yuzu, zest of one orange, we would have added quince too but to be honest we totally forgot!Which pressure cooker you go for, however, depends on how you cook, how many you’re feeding and what room you have available. All of the above would appear to be enough to rekindle interest in slow cookers and pressure cookers items than many of us relegated to the back of our cupboards years ago.

Butter the outsides of the bread and put in a heated sandwich maker, or grill both sides in a frying pan. In the late 90s, or possibly early 2000s, a new generation of pressure cookers seemed suddenly to be available, and when I rhapsodised about them to my late mother-in-law, she was amused at their comeback, telling me of her pressure cooking years in the distant past and the particular glory of her pressure cooker crème caramels. You can use any recipe you like for Christmas Pudding, they all steam in the same way - just use the timing guide below.

Catherine Phipps' New Pressure Cooking book | Ad - Gifted | Right at the beginning of November 2021, Catherine Phipps came to visit The Kitchen Gadget Hub, you may have seen the Christmas Pudding. Hi Jonathan, the pre-steaming phase is necessary for other puddings that actually rise but Christmas Pudding doesn't rise very much so we can bypass it. This book offers tips on how to adapt conventional recipes for the pressure cooker, safety ideas and a guide to using certain ingredients.

Stir in the lentils and the coriander stems, add a generous pinch of salt and pour over 750ml water and the tomatoes. Pressure cookers make good sense from the point of view of economy because they’re fast and fuel-efficient. Meat, game, bean stews and dahls are all cooked in a twinkling thus saving time and expensive energy. Si King, The Hairy BikersWith over 200 recipes, Modern Pressure Cooking is the essential pressure cooker cookbook. With more than 150 delicious recipes for use with the latest time-saving, money saving kitchen gadget, the Pressure Cooker Cookbook will revolutionise your mealtimesNow more than ever, the nation needs and wants to be able to cook in a quicker, easier, cheaper, healthier and greener way.The slow cooker does wonders for cheap ingredients and uses a miniscule amount of electricity as it gently braises inexpensive cuts of meat to melting tenderness or of course it could be a plump chicken, a shoulder of pork or lamb, a bean stew… It seems to me that the slow cooker is the equivalent of a trusty friend that can literally have the family supper ready when you arrive home from work. She’s been described by both Nigella Lawson and by Si King of the Hairy Bikers as the queen of pressure cooking and she really knows her stuff. Having heard a recent BBC Radio 4 Food programme on the subject, I discovered that sales are booming once again.