Pudding 

 Ingredients 

 • 2 large cups plain flour 

 • 1 cup sugar 

 • 2 cups mixed fruit 

 • 3 tablespoons of butter dissolved in cup of hot tea 

 • 1 teaspoon bicarb soda in cup of cold water 

 • Spices  

 • Rum (or sweet sherry)

 Method 

 Gran didn't leave me much of a method so I have made this one up as I go. Mix the fruit with spices - I used 1 teaspoon mixed spice, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, and then add the rum or sherry and mix well, and stand overnight. I used just enough sherry to soak the fruit in. Dissolve the butter in the hot tea, and the carb soda in the cold water. Then mix the flour (heaped cups) with the sugar, and add to the fruit with the tea and water/soda mixes. Spoon the batter into a greased pudding bowl and place it in a saucepan of boiling water with the water level up to half way up the pudding bowl. Cover the saucepan, and top up with boiled water from the kettle as required. Boil 3 hours. Invert pudding onto a plate and serve with cream, custard and ice-cream.