The History
The history of The Carved Angel
The Carved Angel Luxury Christmas Pudding is a recipe inspired by the Victorian cook Eliza Acton over 100 years ago and still manages to take precedent over the Christmas dinner table through its legendary subtle spicy and sweet taste and remarkably light texture.
The balance of all the freshest and highest quality ingredients together with the finest brandy continue to ensure that this vegetarian luxury Christmas pudding allows you to leave the table with an angel in your tummy and not a rock!
Now you can buy the Christmas pudding online - no need to wait until Christmas, you can enjoy The Carved Angel Christmas Pudding all year round. It's also a wonderful gift idea.
A tribute to Joyce Molyneux, founder of The Carved Angel Restaurant.
One dim and dark November night some thirty years ago
T he shadows played across the door of a restaurant we know
Within the chef sat bleary eyed, searching for a way
To help her friends enjoy this year the perfect Christmas Day
This time of year so magical should have a food just so
A treat so irresistible nobody could say no
A stack of books she bustled through beneath the kitchen hooding
For inspiration in her quest to find the perfect pudding
A glance up at the angel carved upon the restaurant wall
Revealed a light shone from its eyes and surely it did fall
On a book from Victorian times – the pages fluttered back
An Eliza Acton recipe, and one the chef had lacked
She set to work creating Christmas pudding soft and rich
A bowl filled with the sweetest fruit and into this we pitch
Spices from around the world, brown sugar dark and sandy
A more than generous shot of the houses finest brandy
She mixed and pounded, beat and stirred until her cheeks were red
Into the early winter hours while others safe in bed
Had no idea of the pleasures only weeks away
The pleasure and indulgence that still endures today
Days and months and years went by and still this pudding stands
Its subtlety of flavour known and loved throughout the land
Today our chefs follow this lead, knowing all the while
They make a pudding that could even make an angel smile!
