christmas pudding

Ingredients:

• White bread slices: 15

• Golden syrup: 2-3 tbsp

• Eggs: 5

• Caster sugar: 200g

• Milk: ½ liter

• Almonds & nuts: 1/3 (crushed)

• Grated nutmeg: 1

• Butter: 100g (softened)

Method:

1- Butter a two-liter pudding mould and cover the bottom with golden syrup.

2- Butter bread slices and cut each half diagonally. Layer them in them in the mould, buttered side up sprinkling nuts & almonds between each layer. Continue till mould is full.

3- Beat eggs, sugar, milk and nut meg together. Pour carefully onto bread. Leave for 15 minutes to allow bread to soak up the custard. Bake in a preheated 180 C oven for 20 minutes.

4- To serve: turn pudding out of mould and serve warm, with cream.

5- For Christmas decorate it with cherries and jelly bars.