This utterly scrumptious, traditional English dessert melts in your mouth. Lovingly handmade with natural ingredients, it’s 45% fruit—raisins (called plums in pre-Victorian days), apples and cherries—plus almonds, walnuts, eggs, flour and spices. Following centuries of tradition, a hefty helping of alcohol (14%)—stout, brandy, damson gin and sloe gin—helps preserve every delicious bite. And because the recipe uses non-hydrogenated vegetable oil instead of suet, vegetarians can dig in, too! Steam your pudding or simply microwave it to serve 3 to 4 appreciative guests. From an English family-owned bakery in the small village of Broomfield, Essex County. One luscious pound.

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Ingredients Vine Fruits (28%) (Sultanas, Raisins), Stout (9%) (BARLEY), Prunes (8%) (Prunes, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate), Apple (Apple, Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid), Dark Muscovado Sugar (Sugar, Cane Molasses, Colour: Plain Caramel E150a), Non-hydrogenated Vegetable Suet (Responsibly Sourced Palm Oil, Sunflower Oil, WHEAT Flour (Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin)), Pasteurised Free Range Whole EGG, WALNUTS, Glace Cherries (Cherries, Glucose Fructose Syrup, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Colour: Fruit and Vegetable Juice Concentrate), WHEAT Flour (Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Ground ALMONDS, Breadcrumbs (WHEAT Flour (Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Yeast, Salt, Emulsifier: E471, E472; SOYA Flour, Preservative: E282; Rapeseed Oil, Flour Treatment Agent: E300), Brandy (3.0%), Damson Gin (2%), Sloe Gin (1.2%), Lemon Juice, Mixed Spice, Lemon Zest, Ground Cinnamon. For allergens, including cereals containing gluten see ingredients in BOLD above. May contain sesame. May also contain fragments of fruit stones.