Ingredients
Scale
- 80g sultanas
- 100g dried plums, chopped
- 150g mixed dried fruit
- 100g mixed peel
- 70ml brandy
- 4 slices of wholemeal bread
- 120g self raising flour
- 1.5 tsp mixed spice
- 180g brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 120g butter, softened
- juice and zest of 1 orange
- pinch of salt
- butter, for greasing
- boiling water
Instructions
- Add sultanas (80g), dried plums (100g), mixed dried fruit (150g), mixed peel (100g) and brandy (70ml) into glass bowl. Stir to combine and cover in cling film. Allow to sit in a dark cool spot overnight.
- Add wholemeal bread to bowl. Speed 7 / 10 seconds.
- Add flour (120g), mixed spice (1.5 tsp), brown sugar (180g) to bowl. Speed 7 / 5 seconds.
- Add eggs (2), butter (120g), juice and zest from one orange and a pinch of salt to bowl. Mix on speed 4 until combined.
- Pour mixture out of bowl and add to the dried fruit mixture. Stir to combine well. Allow to sit whilst preheating the oven.
- Preheat oven to 150C. Grease the pudding dish with a little butter.
- Stir the mixture again and pour into the greased pudding dish. Smooth over the top of the pudding.
- Cover with the baking paper, a layer of aluminium foil and secure it by tying some baking string around the edge of the dish. Alternatively, use a pudding tin that has a fitted lid.
- Place the pudding dish into the baking tray and pour boiling water into until it reaches approximately 3cm up the pudding dish.
- Cover the whole baking tin with aluminium foil and cook for 4-5 hours until cooked through.
- Allows to cool completely. Carefully remove the foil, baking paper and strings.
- Serve with a dusting of icing sugar and custard.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6