Best of the best Christmas pudding

Name: Best of the best Christmas pudding
Total time: 260 min
Ingredients: 150g raisins; 150g sultanas; 100g currants; 60g dried apricots, roughly chopped; 110g soft prunes, pitted and halved; 60g glacé cherries; 140ml brown ale; 1 banana (ideally brown); Grated zest and juice 1 orange; 170g plain flour; 85g soft brown sugar; ½ tsp cinnamon; ½ tsp ground nutmeg; ½ tsp allspice; ¼ tsp ground cloves; 1 tsp mixed spice; 85g brioche, whizzed into breadcrumbs; 110g beef suet; 2 medium free-range eggs; 150g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra to grease; 150g icing sugar; 2 tbsp brandy, plus extra to set the pudding alight; Specialist kit; 1 1/2 litres pudding basin; Butcher’s string

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Inspired by a family recipe, this Christmas pudding is intensely fruity and deeply spiced – the best figgy pudding you’ll ever make.

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