You must start this recipe in September for Thanksgiving or Christmas

Sift 1 cup all purpose Flour

Prepare & Dredge lightly with 1/2 cup of the flour:

1-1/2 cups loosely packed very, extremely finely chopped @1/2lb Suet (get the real thing! Ask your Butcher)

mixed with 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar

and 1T grated orange peel

1T grated Lemon peel

1 cup black raisins

1/2 cup golden raisins

1/2 cup currents

1/2 cup candied citron

1/4 cup chopped mixed dried fruit

1/4 cup chopped dried stewed prunes

1/4 cup grated tart apple

Resift remaining flour with

1/2 grated nutmeg

1/4 t Mace, 1/2t cinnamon, 1/2 t cloves, 1/2t salt, 1/2t baking powder

Combine dredged and sifted ingredients with

4 egg yolks

1/4 cup cream, 1 T marmalade, 1 T molasses,

juice of one orange and one lemon

1/4 cup brandy

1-1/2 cups dry grated bread crumbs

Whip until stiff: 4 egg whites w/1/8t salt and fold in

(I believe you are also supposed to include an English Penny)

Place mixture in tightly covered bowl (two sheets of tinfoil tied tightly around the top)

Cook in steamer (pasta cooker is great -- watch the water level!) for 6 (six) hours

Soak cheesecloth (enough for several layers) in brandy and wrap cooked mixture into tight ball and store hanging in the laundry room (haha! coolest room in the house, unheated room, cool dry room, or improvise...cement basement. Watch out for ants! Open from time to time and pour over generous amounts of brandy (put some sort of tray under it). +/- three months to cure.

Serve hot with a Maraschino Cherry (only 1) on top with cream sauce or rum sauce poured over all; the hard sauce is on the side.

Rum Sauce

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

bring to a boil

remove at once

add 1/4cup rum

Cream Sauce

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

beat & add 1 or 2 eggs

stir in 3/4 cup Rum or Brandy

1t grated lemon rind

1/4t nutmeg

heat over, not in boiling water

Hard Sauce

(It's easy!)

Sift 1-1/2 cup confectioner's sugar

cream 6T

sweet butter

Blend together witha fork

Add 1/8 t salt

1 t vanilla or

(1/2 t vanilla

1/2 t rum)

1/2 t spices

Chill