Bakeo Christmas Pudding

5.0 from 2 reviews

Author: Gran

Recipe type: Cake

Cook time: 3 hours 30 mins

Total time: 3 hours 30 mins

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

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.

5 Responses to "Bakeo Christmas Pudding"

Joanne says:

December 13, 2024 at 6:03 am

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.

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Glenda Weir says:

April 3, 2023 at 8:23 am

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?

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Patty says:

November 8, 2021 at 12:37 pm

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!

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Paula says:

December 24, 2019 at 3:58 am

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😢

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Sue says:

September 30, 2017 at 12:53 am

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…….

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