Traditional Christmas Pudding

  

If your are looking for a light Christmas pudding then I can recommend this recipe. I have for many years avoided the shop bought puddings because they are usually too dark, too short on fruit and too big on price, I this prefer lighter textured, non suet pudding for Christmas day, however, if this is too light for you, it will do perfectly for a St. Stephens Day or Boxing day Pudding. I found this recipe in the RTE Guide a couple of years ago, which I cut out and kept, it was a recipe from Stork Margarine and it is delicious, now a family tradition (well they have to start sometime!!)

It may seem like a lot of effort but, if you plan it out and steam on a day that nothing much else is going on, you might as well have two delicious puddings for your trouble. Make two and if you don't eat the second, well it will keep until next year, no problem. My original love for a light pudding came from my grandmother Kate Heffernan, which my mother made every year, so perhaps next year I might post up that recipe, I hope you enjoy this one for many years ahead.