Orange and Clove Sussex Pond Pudding

What could be more suited to a cold November day than a suet pudding. This is an orange flavoured suet pastry enclosing a clove studded orange and a dark brown sugar, allspice, clove and butter filling.

This was perhaps a partially successful bake. The flavours are great and the pastry well cooked and delicious. There was however no pond. A little disappointing for waiting for it for 2 hours but I think perhaps that was my downfall, I should have been more patient and waited even more for the orange to dissolve and become a runny centre. One experiment tried, and yet to conquer.