Christmas Figgy Pudding | The Miller's Daughter

Ingredients

• 100g raisins
• 125g currants
• 230g dried figs (I used the partially rehydrated dried figs – as sold in the supermarket), with the stems cut off, and chopped into small chunks
• 75g dried dates, chopped into small chunks
• 4 tbsp Calvados
• 300g Bramley apple, peeled and grated
• 25g flaked almonds
• Zest of one large orange
• Zest of one lemon
• Juice of one orange (approximately 60ml)
• 130g chestnut flour
• 200g dark muscovado sugar
• 1 ½ tsp mixed spice
• 1 tsp cardamom
• ½ tsp nutmeg (or grating of fresh nutmeg)
• 100g unsalted butter
• 2 medium eggs