Frances Bissell's Low-Fat Christmas Pudding

Yield: 8 Servings
Categories: Low-Fat, Desserts
230g(8 oz) 4 loosely packed
Cups, fresh wholemal
Breadcrumbs
230g(8 oz, 2 cups) EACH of
Roughly chopped muscatel
(black) raisins,
Sultanas (yellow raisins)
And dried apricots
60g(2 oz, 3/4 cup) crumbled
Almond macaroons or
Amaretti
60g(2 oz, 3/4 cup) chopped
Almonds
60g(2 oz, 1/2 cup) ground or
Flaked almonds
1Grated appple
1tbGrated orange zest
1tsGround cinnamon
1tsGround mace
1/2tsGround cardamom; I had none,
So used cumin, which worked
As well!
1/2tsGround cloves; I used whole,
And put them in the food
Processor
With the bread! Again, it
Worked
1/2tsGround allspice
2tbOrange marmalade or candied
Orange peel
Juice of 1 orange
4mdFree-range eggs
6tbOr 1 miniature bottle of
Cognac
140ml5 fl oz, scant 2/3 cup,
Fortified muscat wine, port,
Marsala
Or rich oloroso sherry
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