For this recipe you will need a 1.2 litre/2 pint pudding bowl and a very large lidded ... Mix thoroughly until combined. Add the suet and rub it into the flour until you reach a breadcrumb ...

Divide off about a quarter of the dough, to be used for the pastry lid. Dust your work surface with flour and roll out the larger piece of dough into a circle roughly 30cm/12in in diameter. Use ...

And if suet freaks you out just a bit, have no fear: There are plenty of recipes included below without that addition. Recipes for Christmas pudding usually include dried fruit, flour, eggs ...

I always make the custard and brandy butter. But this year I will make my own . . . So, to make a great pudding without using suet, search for recipes on Bite. Many "steamed pudding'' recipes are ...

How would you adjust the recipe if you added cheese or chopped ... They need steaming for several hours in a covered pudding bowl and suet just manages to hold the pastry together really well.