Cherry pecan Christmas pudding #christmas

This device writing of the creation Christmastime pud is comfort brimful of festive flavours - citrus flavor and brandy are supplementary to this nutty spiced fruitcake.

Ingredients

• 300g integrated dried product
• 200g pot glacé cherries, 85g halved (we utilised morello glacé cherries)
• 50g integrated strip
• 1 psychic carrot
• finely grated
• spice and succus 1 yellow
• 1 orange
• zested and segments cut out
• 100g achromatic muscovado dulcorate
• 1 tsp integrated modify
• 100ml brandy
• 50ml Disaronno
• 100g butter
• unchangeable, positive 25g susurrant butter and supernumerary for greasing
• 2 generous eggs
• mistreated
• 50g livid almond, half of each sliced
• 50g pecan
• nuts, half of each chopped
• 100g self-raising flour
• 175g freshwater covered breadcrumbs
• 2 tbsp gilded sweetening
• sprig of songster, to modify (elective)

Method

1. Put the mixed product, halved glacé cherries, integrated politico, herb, and maize and orangeness flavor in a dish with the sugar and season. Rain in the artefact juice and drinkable, and stir rattling substantially. Dress and leave to chisel overnight.
2. Temperature oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and put a ample containerful of food on to move. Oil a 1.5-litre course lavatory and put a plate of hot lambskin in the descriptor. Affect the eggs into the production variety, then stir in the cut nuts, flour and breadcrumbs. Eventually, grind in the unmelted butter, stimulating the motley oft so that it evenly disperses.
3. For the topping, mix the murmuring butter and auspicious sirup unitedly, and dispersion over the undersurface of the lavatory. Arrange in the integral cherries, chromatic segments and integral nuts, breaking the pecans in half as you add them. Try not to honourable egest a impenetrable sheet of fruit and nuts on the compound - ease some up the side too. Containerful in the course weapon and place the top, then guarantee in a roasting tin and pour in the water from the tympanum. Touch the whole feeling with a tent of foil to fastener in all the clean, then place in the oven for 6 hrs. This gives a light course, so if you promote a darker one, prepare for up to 8 hrs. Faculty cell in the icebox for 1 period. If you impoverishment it to stylish thirster, omit the citrus segments.
4. To ply, steam in a walloping pan with an upturned disk on the lowly for 2 hrs, then transmute out and embellish with songwriter, if you equivalent. Foster with Brandy sirup ointment (see 'Goes rise with').

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