Title: Baked Christmas Pudding with Brandy Sauce
Categories: Christmas, Desserts, Kooknet
Yield: 10 Servings

1/4 c Butter or margarine,
-softened
1/4 c Sugar
2 Eggs
3/4 c Molasses
1 1/2 c Finely chopped mixed candied
-fruit
1/2 c Finely chopped yellow
-candied pineapple
1/2 c Chopped pecans
1 1/2 c All-purpose flour, divided
1 1/2 ts Baking powder
3/4 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Ground cinnamon
1/2 ts Ground allspice
3/4 c Milk
Brandy Sauce-separate recipe
10 To 12 sugar cubes
Lemon extract (opt.)

Combine butter and 1/4 C sugar in a large mixing bowl; beat with a wooden
spoon until well blended. Add eggs and molasses, mixing well.

Dredge candied fruits and pecans in 2 T flour; set aside.

Combine remaining flour and next 5 ingredients; add to creamed mixture
alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir fruit
mixture into batter.

Spoon batter into a greased and floured 2 quart ring mold. Cover with foil.
Bake at 350 for 1 1/2 hours. Unmold onto serving platter. Spoon Brandy
Sauce over pudding. If desired, soak sugar cubes in lemon extract. Arrange
soaked sugar cubes evenly around heat-proof serving platter, and ignite
just before serving.

Di Note: Don't drink too much before flaming this one on . I did, and
let us say...it was a very interesting moment...

Di Pahl's personal recipes-1994

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini