Mum's Christmas pudding
bake
Mum’s recipe
Makes 2½ puddings – so half the quantities
Ingredients
225g suet
450g raisins
225g currants
225g sultanas
112g mixed peel
112g brazil nuts
170g demerara sugar
170g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
zest & juice of 1 lemon
3 eggs
225g white breadcrumbs
1 cooking apple (grated)
1 carrot (grated)
1 dessertspoon treacle
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon mixed spice
pinch of salt
4 tablespoons of rum or brandy
a little milk
Method
- Put fruit in one bowl and dry ingredients in another bowl.
- Put eggs, lemon, brandy (or rum) in another small bowl.
- Combine the fruit and dry ingredients, and then the liquid, to make a soft dropping consistency (more pouring than a cake) using the milk.
- Grease bowls and fill, leaving an inch at the top, and cover with foil or greaseproof paper.
- Steam for 6 hours in total (par-steam for 4 or 5 hours and then an hour or 2 on the day).