Alice Plummers Christmas Pudding
Source of Recipe
Aussie Bron
List of Ingredients
1/2 lb. softened butter
1/2 lb. brown sugar
1/4 lb. raisins
1/4 lb. candied peel
1/4 lb. sultanas
1 pkt. glace cherries
2 1/2 oz. almonds/flakes or slivers
7 oz. fresh breadcrumbs
5 oz. plain flour
1/2 oz. nutmeg
1 saltspoon all-spice
1 saltspoon salt
1 saltspoon cinnamon
2 saltspoons baking powder
4 eggs
2 tsp. brandy
1 cup milk
stir brandy into fruit and marinate overnight - cream butter and sugar - beat in eggs - add all other ingredients - stir until well mixed - place in buttered pudding basin - cover with buttered foil - tie cloth over firmly - this mixture makes one large pudding or a medium and a small pudding - boil for 7 hours (or for 4 hours and boil for another 3 hours when needed) - serve with icecream, cream and brandy butter.
Note: This recipe is over 100 years old - Alice Plummer's granddaughter and I are friends. My mother, Gwladys and my friend's grandmother, Alice, were friends. It is a three generation friendship.
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