Helge Rubinstein and Sheila Bush’s Christmas Pudding Ice

Ice cream made with some of the ingredients of Christmas pudding is a deliciously light alternative to the Real Thing, one that is much appreciated when the meal has been composed of several rich courses. I shouldn’t recommend serving this ice cream in a blaze of brandy; but if there are only three or four guests, and if you are serving it in flameproof dishes, there would be no harm in warming some brandy or rum in a ladle, taking a match to it, and pouring just a little flaming alcohol ov