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From: "Paul & Margaret Moon" <>
Subject: Re: [GALWAY] Christmas Pudding
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:34:18 +1100
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Hello Everyone,

My grandmother and mother cook their Christmas Pudding here in Australia in
the following way:

2 cups of Self Raising flour
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup of boiling water added to 1 tablespoon of margarine/ butter
3 cups of mixed fruit (a cup each of chopped dates, raisons & sultanas)
1 teaspoon of bi carb soda disolved in 1/2 a cup of milk
1/4 a cup of rum
good pinch of salt
vanilla

Soak the fruit in rum overnight. Add all other ingredients and mix well.
Have water boiling on stove in a very large pot. Wet a calico pudding cloth
in boiling water and place over a medium sized bowl. Sprinkle the cloth
lightly with plain flour (this forms the skin on the pudding) put in the
pudding mix, gather the cloth up and tie very tightly with string just above
the mix. Put the pudding in the boiling water and cook for about 2 1/2
hours. When cooked either hang to mature or cut string and carefully turn
out the pudding hot.

If the pudding was made ahead of time and hung to mature, it was then re
boiled just before serving. My family used make it the day it is to be eaten
though and its just as nice. My grandmother always put in the threepences
each year and when someone found one it was taken back to her and swapped
for 10 cents, so she had the same coins each year, now I do the same.

Kind Regards,
Margaret, N.S.W., Australia.


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