I have been selected to be a leader taking a small group of guides to Finland in 2025. I am passionate that opportunities like these can have a great impact on young adults and provide an opportunity that cant come from being in school or through travel with families.

The trip will be staying in local accommodation and volunteering with a focus on environment and culture. The girls will get to find out about local food, crafts and customs, as well as making a real difference.

As leaders we volunteer our time (this is my holiday for the year) and have to fundraise towards the cost of the trip. Your donations are gratefully received towards my share. 

Some time in the late 1800s, my great-grandmother, May Kinns, acquired a new stepmother: a Mrs Harriet Cameron who moved down from Scotland with her daughter. She was famously very kind to May, and taught her how to cook including her special Christmas pudding recipe with Secret Ingredients.

May in turn passed the recipe to her daughter-in-law, my Grandmother Hilda and so it passed to my mum, and to me. I told Craig of the recipe fairly early in our story, much to the horror of my mum who insisted I should have to marry him to keep the secret! (No objections from me!)

Mum has made hundreds if not thousands of these puddings throughout my life, and the Rite of The Pudding Making has been alive and well in our home for a few years now.

I confess I have slightly tweaked the original recipe, adapting it to be safe for coeliacs.

Every batch of pudding has been stirred up with love and good wishes, and if the bowl returns home in the new year, it may be refilled again next year.

Traditional Christmas Pudding
Your pudding has been made from the finest ingredients, using a recipe more than 150 years old, and is fully cooked.

To enjoy it at its best, place it in a boilable bowl and lid [or foil] in a saucepan of gently simmering water for at least 30 minutes - or in a slow cooker for 2 hours. (If your pudding has been supplied with a bowl, this is boilable.)  - Please be careful. we take no responsibility for AE visits...

Leftovers can be sliced and gently heated in a frying pan for a few minutes until hot through.

Do NOT microwave your pudding - it has a high sugar and fat content, and may become dangerously hot in places, and char or catch fire. Also this will taste bad. 

The pudding is gluten- and dairy-free, vegetarian and made in a coeliac-safe kitchen. (Pictures of the Coeliac child unharmed in kitchen are available if proof is needed)

Non-vegan pudding contains eggs.

There are no nuts in the recipe, but some ingredients are "may contain" for nuts.

All puddings contain Gluten Free Oats.