My Grams (born in 1916) would make Christmas Pudding every year for each of her 5 kids and their families. It was made with what's called suet today and each one of them had to be steamed for 6 hours, cooled and then stored for at least 3 months. Nowadays one can buy cake with candied Peel in it and a ton of sugar and a crapload of so-called ingredients which are manmade chemical substitutes that are near impossible for the average person to even attempt to say. Just one more recipe gone by the wayside because today suet is not allowed to be used in food, only the artificial crap.