Day 1
In a very big bowl, soak:
6 cups dried fruit in 1 cup brandy
Day 2
Mix together with brandy soaked fruit and leave to sit, covered:
3 cups plain flour
1.5 cups sugar
2 Tbsp mixed spice
2 tsp bicarb soda
1 tsp salt
2 Tbsp butter
2 cups boiling water
Day 3
Add 2 beaten eggs
Scald pudding cloth, sprinkle with plain flour.
Sit cloth into a bowl, fill with pudding mixture, gather & tie off with an inch of space extra for pudding growth.
Boil for two hours (topping up the water as it boils away.)
Hang somewhere dry & keep an eye out for damp/mould!
Christmas Day
Boil to reheat. Douse in brandy, flame & gobble with brandy butter, custard & ice cream or cream.
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