Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding

[Grange]

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.

[refried]

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

[Danno]

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

[J. Barron DeJong]

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.