# Plum Pudding **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plum-pudding/475274 "2008-12-02T01:17:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plum-pudding/475274/1 "2008-12-02T01:17:38Z")
I am going to make a pudding for christmas dinner, and I want a knock your socks off good plum pudding. I have brandied hard sauce down to perfection … but am tired of the same old plum pudding I have made for decades … 1 cup sugar 1 cup butter, room temperature 1 cup milk - whole unskimmed 2 eggs, beaten 2/3 cup molasses 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 3 teaspoons baking powder 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour plus 2 tablespoons 1 1/2 cups raisins, finely chopped 1 cup dates, chopped 1/2 cup nuts, chopped 3 tablespoons candied orange or lemon citron, finely chopped [whatever i have on hand] 1 1/2 cups chopped apples 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg Suggestions? I know I should have been ‘auditioning’ recipes over the summer, but i have been busy with work…