Banana Plum Pudding

Name: Banana Plum Pudding
Yield: Makes 1 pudding (best in a 900 ml/1½ pint mould, but will just fit in a 600 ml/1 pint one)
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 55 g/2 oz each currants, sultanas, candied peel, caster sugar and flour; 100 g/3½ oz suet; 85 g/3 oz raisins – chopped in half if very large; 1 level tsp ground ginger; 2 bananas; 14 g/½ oz chopped almonds; 1 heaped tsp ground almonds; 75 ml/2½ fl oz full-fat milk; 1 lightly beaten egg

Preparation info

Makes
1
pudding (best in a 900 ml 1½ pint mould, but will just fit in a 600 ml 1 pint one)

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

At Christmas We Feast

By Annie Gray

Published 2021

About

Elizabeth Craig, 1962, Banana Dishes¹²⁸

There are almost as many plum pudding recipes as there are recipe books: it is such a British staple that nearly every author has had a crack at one. For an excellent, conventional pudding, Eliza Acton’s Author’s Christmas pudding is hard to beat, but for the pur