Best Christmas pudding recipe

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My grandmother had to adapt her traditional Christmas pudding recipe to create this one, as my uncle was allergic to eggs. Her unbeatable version of the seasonal pud is light and moist—the key ingredient is the grated carrot.

Ingredients
½ pound breadcrumbs
½ pound raisins
1tsp ground ginger
1tsp salt
1tsp mixed spice
¼ pound suet
2tbsp milk
¼ pound brown sugar
¼ pound lemon or mixed peel
4½oz golden syrup
4oz grated carrot
2tbsp brandy or rum

Method
Prepare the fruit and chop the peel. Grate the carrot. Mix the spice, salt and ground ginger and the breadcrumbs together in a bowl. Add the rest of the dry ingredients and mix.

Warm the milk in a saucepan and dissolve the syrup in it. Add the spirit and mix it in thoroughly, and then add the mixed dry ingredients.

Fill two greased pudding basins to the brim with the mixture and cover them with grease-proof paper. Put the basins in a double boiler and steam for eight hours. Remove and store in a fridge or larder (for up to a week). On Christmas Day, steam the pudding in the basins in the double boiler again for three hours before serving.

Best served with double cream, brandy cream or brandy butter—or all of the above!