Gram's Christmas Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• 2 cups fruit
• 2 cups plain flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups white, hand-rubbed bread crumbs
• 1 ½ cups suet
• 4 teaspoons mixed spices
• 4 teaspoons cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons bi carb soda
• 1 cup cold black tea (to give stiff firm mixture)

Method

• Mix bi carb with tea
• Put all dry ingredients in bowl
• Add tea
• Put into foil-lined and greased pudding steamer
• If adding water, add it boiling so pudding stays on the boil
• Have on low rack so pudding pan doesn’t touch bottom so it doesn’t burn

Source

Gram