BAKED CHRISTMAS PUDDING WITH BRANDY SAUCE

      Title: BAKED CHRISTMAS PUDDING WITH BRANDY SAUCE - D
  Categories: Holidays, Di, Desserts
       Yield: 10 Servings
  
     1/4 c  Butter or margarine,
            -softened
     1/4 c  Sugar
       2    Eggs
     3/4 c  Molasses
   1 1/2 c  Finely chopped mixed candied
            -fruit
     1/2 c  Finely chopped yellow
            -candied pineapple
     1/2 c  Chopped pecans
   1 1/2 c  All-purpose flour, divided
   1 1/2 ts Baking powder
     3/4 ts Baking soda
     1/2 ts Salt
       1 ts Ground cinnamon
     1/2 ts Ground allspice
     3/4 c  Milk
            Brandy Sauce-separate recipe
      10    To 12 sugar cubes
            Lemon extract (opt.)
  
   Combine butter and 1/4 C sugar in a large mixing bowl; beat with a
   wooden spoon until well blended.  Add eggs and molasses, mixing well.
   
   Dredge candied fruits and pecans in 2 T flour; set aside.
   
   Combine remaining flour and next 5 ingredients; add to creamed mixture
   alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir
   fruit mixture into batter.
   
   Spoon batter into a greased and floured 2 quart ring mold. Cover with
   foil. Bake at 350 for 1 1/2 hours. Unmold onto serving platter. Spoon
   Brandy Sauce over pudding. If desired, soak sugar cubes in lemon
   extract. Arrange soaked sugar cubes evenly around heat-proof serving
   platter, and ignite just before serving.
   
   Di Note:  Don't drink too much before flaming this one on . I did,
   and let us say...it was a very interesting moment...
   
   Di Pahl's personal recipes-1994
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