Oven-Steamed Figgy Pudding

For years,” my friend Sue Crouse of Warren, Ohio, explains, “my mother always bought Crosse and Blackwell’s fig pudding, and we had it for the holidays. We liked it better than plum pudding. Mother either steamed it right in the can or sometimes opened the can, put it on a cookie sheet and heated it up in the oven.

“Then Crosse and Blackwell stopped making the pudding. I wrote to them, and they told me it didn’t have a very good shelf life. So then I fooled around w