In a Xmas pud recipe it calls for 2¼ cups breadcrumbs, freshly made from day-old bread and ¾ cup self-raising flour as being the only 'binders'. Can I replace the breadcrumbs with ground almonds?
sarahb5,
Dec 7, 9:36am
Why? The taste, consistency and cost would all be quite different
whitehead.,
Dec 8, 7:40am
you could use half and half the flavour would be lovely i would also add an egg to bind
nauru,
Dec 8, 8:12am
Adding breadcrumbs gives a lighter texture to the puddings, I always add them to my puddings.
sarahb5,
Dec 8, 8:49am
I used to bind mine with egg, finely grated carrot and stout/Guinness
awoftam,
May 2, 9:08am
I would imagine the almonds would give the pudding a richer and more buttery flavour and would have thought the fat in the nut mixture would bind as well (if not better) than crumbs - however I am no baker so am not sure you could do a straight substitution. Can you have a trial run?
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