Christmas Pudding

Name: Christmas Pudding
Yield: 12 helpings
Ingredients: 4 oz. butter or margarine; 4 oz. butter or margarine; 4 oz. honey; 3 eggs; 4 oz. chopped candied peel; ½ lb. breadcrumbs; rind and juice of 1 large lemon; pinch of salt; 2 small cooking apples; 4 oz. sultanas; 4 oz. moist brown sugar; 1 teasp. mixed spice; 4 oz. pine kernels; 4 oz. shelled Brazil nuts; 8 oz. raisins, stoned and halved; 4 oz. currants; 8 oz. peeled sweet almonds; ½ lb. figs

Preparation info

12
helpings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

About

Ingredients

(1) Fruitarian Plum Pudding (without suet)

½ lb. figs
8 oz. peeled sweet almonds

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Grease two 1½-pt. basins. Wash, chop (or mince) the figs; chop the nuts; prepare the dried fruit; core, peel and chop the apples.

Mix together the fruit, nuts, spice, sugar, breadcrumbs, candied peel, salt and grated lemon rind. Warm the butter and honey together. Beat the eggs and add th