This is a Christmas Pudding without suet or added refined sugar. It uses butter and date syrup/molasses instead To be honest I don’t think that this makes Christmas Pudding more healthy but it tastes delicious and maybe you will feel these tweaks make it better for you I alternate between my grandmothers recipe (which has suet and added sugar) – Stir-up Sunday Part One Christmas Pudding and this one. This year we will have two people round the table who are diabetic so maybe this recipe will allow them to have a little bit without feeling too guilty.
This recipe has the figs so often left out nowadays and always reminds me of the song, We wish you a merry Christmas, and in particular the verse “So bring out the figgy pudding” To add to the old-fashioned feel I always add charms and, this year an old threepence and silver sixpence (washed and wrapped in baking parchment). It adds to the excitement I think, for grown-ups and youngsters alike! I make a variety of different sizes of puddings as so often a small homemade pudding is a great gift for couples or for those who go away to family/friends for lunch on the day and have no leftovers. Cold pudding is wonderful fried up in lot of butter for Boxing Day breakfast or crumbled into softened icecream to make Christmas Icecream Continue reading
