Baked Christmas Pudding with Brandy Sauce

Title:
Baked Christmas Pudding with Brandy Sauce

Yield:
10 Servings

Categories:
Christmas,
Desserts




Ingredients:





   1/4 c  Butter or margarine,


          -softened


   1/4 c  Sugar


     2    Eggs


   3/4 c  Molasses


 1 1/2 c  Finely chopped mixed candied


          -fruit


   1/2 c  Finely chopped yellow


          -candied pineapple


   1/2 c  Chopped pecans


 1 1/2 c  All-purpose flour, divided


 1 1/2 ts Baking powder


   3/4 ts Baking soda


   1/2 ts Salt


     1 ts Ground cinnamon


   1/2 ts Ground allspice


   3/4 c  Milk


          Brandy Sauce-separate recipe


    10    To 12 sugar cubes


          Lemon extract (opt.)






 Combine butter and 1/4 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 quart ring mold. Cover with foil.


 Bake at 350 for 1 1/2 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.


 


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 let us say...it was a very interesting moment...


 


 Di Pahl's personal recipes-1994


 


 From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini