Frances Bissells Low-Fat Christmas Pudding

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Frances Bissells Low-Fat Christmas Pudding Ingredients

230 g (8 oz) 4 loosely packed	1/2 ts Ground cardamom; I had none,
Cups, fresh wholemal	So used cumin, which worked
Breadcrumbs	As well!
230 g (8 oz, 2 cups) EACH of	1/2 ts Ground cloves; I used whole,
Roughly chopped muscatel	And put them in the food
(black) raisins,	Processor
Sultanas (yellow raisins)	With the bread! Again, it
And dried apricots	Worked
60 g (2 oz, 3/4 cup) crumbled	1/2 ts Ground allspice
Almond macaroons or	2 tb Orange marmalade or candied
Amaretti	Orange peel
60 g (2 oz, 3/4 cup) chopped	Juice of 1 orange
Almonds	4 md Free-range eggs
60 g (2 oz, 1/2 cup) ground or	6 tb Or 1 miniature bottle of
Flaked almonds	Cognac
1 Grated appple	140 ml 5 fl oz, scant 2/3 cup,
1 tb Grated orange zest	Fortified muscat wine, port,
1 ts Ground cinnamon	Marsala
1 ts Ground mace	Or rich oloroso sherry

Instructions for Frances Bissells Low-Fat Christmas Pudding

Put all the dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix thoroughly. Put the marmalade, orange juice, eggs, brandy and wine in another large bowl, or in the blender or food processor, and beat until well blended and frothy. Pour the liquid over the dry ingredients. Mix until moist. Cover, and let sand for a couple of hours at least and, if possible, overnight to let the spice flavours develop. Oil or butter the pudding basin and spoon in the mixture. As it contains no raw flour, it will not expand very much during the cooking, so you can fill the basin to within 1.25 cm (1/2 inch) of the rim. Take a square of greaseproof or waxed paper, oil or butter it (I didnt bother, but did oil the basins. I dont have a 3-pint one, so used 1 2-pint and 1 1-pint one, 2 pints being ample for my family for Christmas dinner) and tie it over the top of the basin with string. Steam in boiling water for 5 hours. Allow pudding to cool completely before wrapping it, still in its basin, in fresh greaseproof paper plus a layer of foil. Store in a cool dark place. On Christmas Day, steam for a further two hours. Bissell/Levy suggest serving this with creme fraiche, rather than the traditional brandy butter (dont ask - not to be discussed on THIS mailing list!!!), and I do think this is one occasion when a LITTLE cream is permissible! From Geminis MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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