Snow Queen - yeah, I got the boots...

Rictor tells me that everyone has been twittering their Christmas recipes, so here's my ha'porth.

In the middle of November the Civil Service Motoring Magazine (don't ask) published a recipe for Snow Queen, an iced ginger pudding. I cut this out and promptly misfiled it - I am an information specialist after all. Nothing daunted I looked for it on the web, and lo and behold the BBC provided the recipe courtesy of the the Hairy Bikers.

This reciped involved a pint of double cream, a tub and a half of meringues broken up, a couple of tablespoons of caster sugar, a couple of tablespoons of brandy, and a tablespoon each of chopped preserved ginger and the syrup from the jar.

Whip the cream, stir in the rest of the ingredients and "pour into an oiled one pint pudding basin" then freeze overnight. Defrost for 15 minutes in the refrigerator before serving.

Unless the Hairy Bikers know something about particle physics that I don't, or unless the recipe forgot to specify an hydraulic press, someone's researcher didn't do the math. A pint of cream plus all the rest does not go into a one pint basin.

So, 250 ml (or half a pint) of double cream, 100 grams of ready made meringues and the original quantities of sugar, brandy, ginger and syrup.

This is a seriously easy pudding to make, and has the advantage over ice cream of not needing stirring during the freezing process.