Small Christmas Pudding

Name: Small Christmas Pudding
Yield: Makes one 450-g (1-lb) pudding to serve 4
Ingredients: 1 small egg; 1 teaspoon treacle; 1 tablespoon milk; 25 g/1 oz (or 3 rounded tablespoons) fresh white breadcrumbs; pinch salt; 50 g/2 oz self-raising flour; ¼ level teaspoon mixed spice; 40 g/1½ oz shredded beef suet; finely grated rind and juice of ½ lemon; 50 g/2 oz soft brown sugar; 175 g/6 oz mixed dried fruit; ½ apple, peeled and coarsely grated; 25 g/1 oz chopped mixed peel

Preparation info

Makes one 450 - pudding to serve
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Calendar Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1977

About

Smaller families or people living on their own may find this recipe for a single Christmas pudding very useful. Pour over a little rum or brandy before storing to give extra flavour.

Ingredients

50 g/2 oz self-raising flour
¼ level teaspoon mixed spice

Dessert
Christmas

Method

Sieve the flour, mixed spice and salt into a mixing basin. Add the breadcrumbs, suet, dried fruit, mixed peel, grated apple and sugar and mix well. Stir in the grated lemon rind and strained juice, lightly mixed egg, treacle and enough milk to mix to a medium-soft consistency.

Spoon into a well-buttered 0.5-