Peter Ward`s Country Choice shop, in Nenagh in Co Tipperary, is famous as a place to buy top quality fruit for Christmas and Mr Ward puts his fruit to work in his own puds — the glace fruit comes from Perugia and the peel from Zargasso in Spain. Such detail explains the higher than normal price, but this pudding is worth any amount of money. Superlative flavour thanks to the excellent fruit and a fresh note thanks to the use of barley wine, meant that this was the unanimous favourite of all the puddings. Country Choice will post the puddings anywhere with in Ireland for €8.

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