Christmas pudding - healthy & low calorie (no suet)

Preparation

• Soak the dried fruit overnight in your alcohol of choice.
• The next day, dust the glace cherries in the flour before adding (with all the flour) to the rest of the pudding's dry ingredients.
• Mix all the dry ingredients together first, then add the wet ones. Mix together thoroughly - the smell is gorgeous!
• Place into a greased 2 pt. (1.2 ltre) Pyrex bowl (or similar), cover well with a double sheet of buttered greaseproof paper
• Tie with string or make a strip of foil to place under and over the bowl - so that you have a handle/s you can take the hot bowl out of the pan with.
• This may be necessary when refilling the hot water inside the saucepan.