Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• currants
  2 cups
• seeded muscat raisins
  1 cup
• seedless golden raisins
  1 cup
• mixed peels

  finely chopped
  1 cup
• brandy
  3/4 cup
• unblanched almonds

  sliced lengthwise
  1 cup
• finely grated carrots
  1 cup
• unsifted all purpose flour
  1/4 cup
• allspice
  1 tbsp
• finely chopped beef suet
  2 1/3 cups
• fine soft bread crumbs (no crusts)
  6 cups
• eggs

  separated
  8 large
• well packed brown sugar
  1 1/4 cups
• soft butter
  4 tbsp
• well packed brown sugar
  1/2 cup
• glace red cherries
  10 unit
• cinnamon
  1 unit
• thin strips of candied citron
  10 unit