WE WANT SOME FIGGY PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Grease a 9-inch tube pan.
• Beat butter until soft.
• Add eggs and molasses and beat till fluffy.
• Add chopped figs (try to use good quality figs), grated lemon rind, and buttermilk.
• In another bowl combine all the rest of the ingredients (all dry ingredients).
• Pour dry ingredients into fig mixture and stir well.
• Pour into tube pan and cook for about an hour or until toothpick comes out pretty clean.
• After about 15 minutes, try to dislodge cake and put out onto a baking rack.
• Soak enough cheese cloth to go around the cake a couple times in brandy.
• When cake is cool, wrap it up well and soak for 24 hours.
• Serve with hard sauce.