The Christmas Pudding has to be the most essential part of the festive meal. It heralds the end of the christmas dinner, but also provides ingredients to help with digestion, via the prunes and dried fruit. That's my theory anyway... <br /> <br />It contains bourbon, which you can leave out, but I'm sure the small amount of alcohol won't get anyone into trouble. As kids, our parents used to let us have two fingers high of champagne. We felt quite grown up and loved that moment of feeling accepted as equal. My grandmother also thought that letting us sniff the cork of a wine bottle would put us to sleep. So maybe this christmas pudding not only helps with digestion, but it will also put the kids to sleep at the end of a crazy and stressful day.

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