Grandma’s Christmas pudding

Put the dried fruit, mixed peel, grated carrots and apples in a large bowl with the grated rind and juice of the orange and lemon, mix well. Put all the dry ingredients into a second bowl i.e. white breadcrumbs, flour, suet, brown sugar, mixed spice and bicarbonate of soda, and mix well.

Combine the two bowls together and then add the eggs, brandy and treacle.  Mix again and make a wish!

Place the mixture into a greased pudding basin and cover with a circle of buttered greaseproof paper.  Cover the basin with a double thickness of greaseproof paper, and then aluminium foil.

Boil for six hour hours and then for three on Christmas Day.