Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding

After years of listening to "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and wondering what figgy pudding was I decided to give it a try. I'm having Christmas dinner at a family member's place and will bring what hopefully will be a good dessert to go with a nice Port wine I got in Portugal last year.

I'm using a recipe that is supposed to be traditional and includes beef suet and brandy, but with all the supposed old family recipes out there I wonder if it really is traditional. Being from WI a dessert with brandy is usually well received. Hopefully the brandy will preserve it well since I made it on stir up Sunday.

I'm curious if others have a family Christmas pudding recipe? The one I used didn't specify the dried fruit so I used raisins, WI cranberries, WI cherries, figs, and apricots. I did order mixed spice since it is not available around here and it is cheaper to buy it than make my own.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat you meat.

Well, we all want some figgy pudding. Did you bring enough for everybody?

This is the one I use:

https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeands...istmas-pudding

Pretty traditional.

ETA: ‘mixed spice’ is a spice blend in the same vein as ‘pumpkin spice’

If not buying a mixed spice blend, recipe for the mixture here:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/388...pe/mixed-spice

And for suet, you don’t want fresh suet. You want ‘Atora Shredded Beef Suet’. (Can buy on Amazon.)

Oh, and for ‘self rising flour’ add 2 tsp baking powder per 150g flour.