Baked Christmas Pudding With Brandy Sauce

Ingredients

55 gr butter
50 gr sugar
2 eggs
180 ml molasses
200 gr mixed candied
130 gr candied pineapple
65 gr pecans
190 gr all purpose flour
7 gr baking powder
3 gr baking soda
1 gr salt
3 gr cinnamon
1 gr allspice
180 ml milk
12 sugar

Instructions

Lemon extract (opt.) Combine butter and quarter C sugar in a large mixing bowl; beat with a wooden spoon until well blended. Add eggs and molasses, mixing well. Dredge candied fruits and pecans in 2 T flour; set aside. Combine remaining flour and next 5 ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir fruit mixture into batter. Spoon batter into a greased and floured 2 litre ring mold. Cover with foil. Bake at 180ÂșC or 1.5 hours. Unmold onto serving platter. Spoon Brandy Sauce over pudding. If desired, soak sugar cubes in lemon extract. Arrange soaked sugar cubes evenly around heat-proof serving platter, and ignite just before serving. Di Note: Don't drink too much before flaming this one on . I did, and let us say...it was a very interesting moment... Di Pahl's personal recipes-1994