Bakeo Christmas Pudding

5.0 from 2 reviews
Bakeo Christmas Pudding
 
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Ingredients
  • 500 g mixed fruit
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • pinch salt
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ½ cup cold water
  • ½ teaspoon bicarbonate soda
  • ½ teaspoon spice
  • spirits, if desired
  • 1 tablespoon syrup or treacle
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 packet bakeo pastry mixture
Instructions
  1. Place fruit, sugar, water, salt, spices, bicarbonate soda and spirits in a saucepan. Boil and allow to cool. Add syrup, well beaten eggs and packet of bakeo. Beat until smooth. Place in a greased basin and tie greased paper over basin firmly to make it airtight. Steam 3 to 3 ½ hours. If pudding is allowed to stand, reheat for ¾ hour before serving. Serve with brandy sauce.

 

By admin on December 10, 2012 · Posted in Gran's Recipe Book

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Sue says:

thank you this is the same recipe my aunty used to make for the family. She use to boil it in calico and put threepences and sixpences in it for the kids. I will attempt to make it this year. Wish me luck…….

Posted on September 30th, 2017

Paula says:

We can’t buy Bake suet this year! 😢 Can you please tell me URGENTLY how many GRAMS/OUNCES the Baker box had? I have the Baker recipe from 1958but it neglects to say how much was in the pkt😠 I need to cook it NOW. please help me as it was a tradition for my dear Mum and my sister is carrying that on now that Mum passed 14 years ago😢

Posted on December 24th, 2019

Patty says:

I have been making this recipe for 35 years. It is my Mother in Laws recipe that she used for 40 odd years. I find it hard to get Bakeo brand pastry mix and have started doubting if it was just bakeo or bakeo pastry mix and have been forced to buy a different brand. There is now several different mixes like pastry mix and scone mix! This now reconfirm I need the pastry mix pack in whatever brand I can get.
Have never had a failure unlike the other family member trying to make it in a cloth! Love it and proud to use her recipe!

Posted on November 8th, 2021

Glenda Weir says:

Bakeo Pastry Mix hasn’t been available for a long time now and the recipe I’m using for my Christmas cake & pudding is my grandmother’s from when measurements were imperial (not metric). Does anyone know what the weight of the original Bakeo Pastry mix was?

Posted on April 3rd, 2023

Joanne says:

I know this is an old post, but in case I can help, I also use my Nan’s Bakeo Pastry Mix Christmas pudding recipe. I now use Lion Pastry Mix, available in Woolworths. The pudding turns out the same. I use about 3/4 of the packet and just judge when the batter looks right. The whole packet would make it very dry. I make mine in a pudding cloth.
I think the Lion Pastry Mix is also sometimes in IGA.

Posted on December 13th, 2024