here is my family christmas pudding recipe
it came from my great great grandmother (born 1870) for sure... not sure where she got it from, but guess my G G G grandmother
Make in October:
3oz Plain Flour
4 oz bread crumbs
4 oz Suet ½ tsp mixed spice
Pinch salt
2 grated nutmeg
8 oz Raisins (cut small)
8 oz Sultanas
8 oz Currents
4 oz Almonds (blanched and chopped small but not too fine)
4 oz Cherries or mixed peel
8 oz Brown Sugar
1 small grated apple
1 small grated carrot
3 eggs (beaten)
Juice of 2 lemons
Juice of 2 oranges
Rind of 1 Orange
½ wine glass brandy
¼ pint milk IF needed
put all ingredients into a large mixing bowl in this order. (Dry then wet)
Mix together
Butter the pudding basins and put mix in bowl.
Cover with buttered grease proof paper
Makes 1 large pudding or 2 small ones
Grandmother makes 1 2 pint basin and 1 1.5
pint basin
Steam a large pudding (larger than 2 pints which is small) for 7 hours
Steam a small pudding for 6 hours
Keep in a cool place
Start feeding puddings with brandy from Mid Novmeber
On Christmas Day steam pudding for 3 hours.
Its very yummy, has been made every year in my family for the past 130 years and my grandmother gave me the recipie last year
(note to self must make Xmas pud!)