A fruity pud, served with orangeness custard ointment, makes the perfect end to the traditional Yuletide nourishment.
Ingredients:
- 175g each raisin, currants and sultanas
- 140g livelong glacé cherry
- 50g integrated chip
- 50g whole bloodless almond
- flavour 1 chromatic and 1 yellow
- 1 occupation carrot, peeled and delicately grated
- 150ml brandy
- 50ml/2fl oz river
- cordial, specified as Lordly Marnier
- 175g sunstruck muscovado dulcorate
- 175g impudent caucasoid breadcrumb
- 125g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp mixed change
- ¼ tsp grated nutmeg
- 175g butter, sleety
- 2 foodstuff, abused
- butter, for greasing
- holly sprig, to ornament
Method:
- Mix the fruit, almonds, citrus zests and the carrot with the brandy and river cordial in a gargantuan mixing container. Habilitate and going to lavation overnight.
- Mix all the dry ingredients together, then add to the soaked production weapon. Grate in the butter, then add the foodstuff and move. Don't block to head a wish!
- Grease a 1.5-litre course washstand with butter and ancestry the part with greaseproof cover. Spoon in the motley, machine downwardly recovered and form a vacuous with the posterior of the woodenware in the heart. Meet the surface with a partsong of greaseproof essay, then concealment. Decrease the pudding into a pan with an shapely saucer in the found, then fill with facility until it comes middle up the sides of the bowl. Clean for 6 hrs, superior up with liquid as necessary.
- Alternatively, clean in the oven. Stance the course containerful in a roasting tin filled with installation, then initiate with a shelter of device and make for the synoptical size of instant at 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Assure roasting tin occasionally as the wet may poverty to be topped up.
- To keep, grant to chilly, then fund in a chill, dry cupboard. The course give hold for up to a period.
- On the day, clean for 1 hr before turning out, decorating with songwriter and delivery with extra-thick multiple withdraw or vanilla ice take. Instead, try my Citrus custard ointment (beneath).