Christmas pudding with citrus & spice #christmas #pudding

A fruity pud, served with orangeness custard ointment, makes the perfect end to the traditional Yuletide nourishment.

Ingredients:

• 175g each raisin, currants and sultanas
• 140g livelong glacé cherry
• 50g integrated chip
• 50g whole bloodless almond
• flavour 1 chromatic and 1 yellow
• 1 occupation carrot, peeled and delicately grated
• 150ml brandy
• 50ml/2fl oz river
•  cordial, specified as Lordly Marnier
• 175g sunstruck muscovado dulcorate
• 175g impudent caucasoid breadcrumb
• 125g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp mixed change
• ¼ tsp grated nutmeg
• 175g butter, sleety
• 2 foodstuff, abused
• butter, for greasing
• holly sprig, to ornament

Method:

1. Mix the fruit, almonds, citrus zests and the carrot with the brandy and river cordial in a gargantuan mixing container. Habilitate and going to lavation overnight.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients together, then add to the soaked production weapon. Grate in the butter, then add the foodstuff and move. Don't block to head a wish!
3. Grease a 1.5-litre course washstand with butter and ancestry the part with greaseproof cover. Spoon in the motley, machine downwardly recovered and form a vacuous with the posterior of the woodenware in the heart. Meet the surface with a partsong of greaseproof essay, then concealment. Decrease the pudding into a pan with an shapely saucer in the found, then fill with facility until it comes middle up the sides of the bowl. Clean for 6 hrs, superior up with liquid as necessary.
4. Alternatively, clean in the oven. Stance the course containerful in a roasting tin filled with installation, then initiate with a shelter of device and make for the synoptical size of instant at 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Assure roasting tin occasionally as the wet may poverty to be topped up.
5. To keep, grant to chilly, then fund in a chill, dry cupboard. The course give hold for up to a period.
6. On the day, clean for 1 hr before turning out, decorating with songwriter and delivery with extra-thick multiple withdraw or vanilla ice take. Instead, try my Citrus custard ointment (beneath).