Frances bissell's low-fat christmas pudding Recipe

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Frances bissell's low-fat christmas pudding

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Ingredients:

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

Procedures:

1	Put all the dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix thoroughly.
2	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.
3	Pour the liquid over the dry ingredients.
4	Mix until moist.
5	Cover, and let sand for a couple of hours at least and, if possible, overnight to let the spice flavours develop.
6	Oil or butter the pudding basin and spoon in the mixture.
7	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 (?inch) of the rim.
8	Take a square of greaseproof or waxed paper, oil or butter it (i didn"t bother, but did oil the basins.
9	I don"t 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.
10	Steam in boiling water for 5 hours.
11	Allow pudding to cool completely before wrapping it, still in its basin, in fresh greaseproof paper plus a layer of foil.
12	Store in a cool dark place.
13	On christmas day, steam for a further two hours.
14	Bissell/levy suggest serving this with creme fraiche, rather than the traditional brandy butter (don"t ask - not to be discussed on this mailing list!!!), and i do think this is one occasion when a little cream is permissible! incidentally, the tradition is that every member of the family stirs the pudding mixture while making a wish....