Plum Pudding
- 1 cup suet ground
- 3/4 cup apples
- 3/4 cup bread crumbs
- 3/4 cup flour, all-purpose
- 1/4 teaspoon mace
- 3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup candied orange peel
- 1 cup raisins, seedless
- 1 cup currants
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup brandy
- 4 each eggs
- Mix all ingredients except eggs and brandy until well blended, use your hands if necessary.
- Stir in eggs, and brandy.
- Pour into lightly greased pudding mold or basin (or a coffee tin) and cover top with a piece of greased foil and clean cloth.
- Tie coverings, tightly and leave strings to assist in removing from pot later.
- Place on rack in pot with boiling water 23 way up the side of the basin.
- Boil gently for 3 to 3 1/2 hours.
- Remove carefully from cooled water, using strings.
- Cool completely and store in a cool place (or the refrigerator) until Christmas.
- Too serve, reheat unmolked pudding by steaming or wrap in foil and reheat gently in oven.
- Invert onto serving platter; set aflame, if desired, with brandy and insert holly in top.
- Serve with whipped cream or brandied hard sauce.
suet ground, apples, bread crumbs, flour, mace, nutmeg, salt, candied orange peel, raisins, currants, brown sugar, brandy, eggs
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/plum-pudding-45804 (may not work)