Gourmet Traveller

LIGHT MY FIRE

Lunch is the high point of any day, but at Christmas it is the high point of the whole month. Every part plays a vital elemental role – the turkey, the stuffing, the sides, it is all so supremely edible and so symbiotic. How do you top such a high? There is only one way – a mighty Christmas Pudding.

When I was a child my mother would make two puddings, one for this year and one for next, and I remember the muslin-wrapped bundles maturing broodily in the little

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