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Don’t be put off by the cooking time.
Once it’s in the oven, you don’t need to do a thing.

Serves 4-6
Cooking Time 2 hours

Ingredients:

• 175g (6oz) SuperValu soft brown sugar
• 200g (7oz) white breadcrumbs made with stale bread
• 500g (16oz) SuperValu Goodness raisins and currants
• 25g (1oz) chopped prunes
• 25g (1oz) chopped apricots
• Grated rind of 1/2 lemon
• 110g (4oz) candied peel
• 2 tsp SuperValu Goodness cinnamon
• 1 tsp SuperValu Cooks’ Ingredients whole cloves, ground
• 1 nutmeg grated
• 2 tbsp SuperValu flour
• 1 stewed SuperValu apple
• 1 SuperValu carrot, grated
• 3 SuperValu eggs
• Bottle of Guinness and some brandy

To Cook:

1. Lay out all the ingredients on the table to make sure  you have everything.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients together.
   
3. Whisk the eggs, add the apple to them and then add eggs and apple mixture to the dry mixture.
   
4. Add the Guinness carefully until the mixture has a  dropping consistency. Spoon into pudding bowl. Cover with a round of greaseproof paper, then  secure cover.
   
5. Place in a saucepan 3/4 full of boiling water. The pudding must be simmered gently for about  8-10 hours.
   
6. Keep topping up the water and do net let the saucepan go dry.
   
7. When the pudding is cooked make sure to dry it  properly when you take it out, wrap it in greaseproof paper and store in a cool, dry place.
   
8. Check it every now and then and pour a little brandy on it. If any mould appears on it slice it off and just pour more brandy on it.
   
9. Before serving, put the pudding back in its bowl and  reheat again in a saucepan of boiling water for about  1.5 hours.
   
10. Serve with custard, brandy bitter or whipped cream.

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