Christmas Plum-Pudding

Very Good

Preparation info
  • Sufficient for a quart mould for

    7 or 8

    persons.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Great Cooks and Their Recipes

By Anne Willan

Published 1977

  • About

The “few days” suggested by Mrs Beeton is the minimum time the pudding should be made ahead; like fruit cakes, the flavor of plum pudding matures if kept for several months. Mrs Beeton’s note about preparing several puddings at once is typical of her practical approach to entertaining. Traditionally every member of the household stirs the mixture and charms are added – a bachelor’s button, spinster’s thimble, rich man’s soveriegn, lucky horseshoe, etc. – indicating the fort