grandtanteJE65, We both love Christmas pudding (with brandy butter) so I always make 2 big ones that we’ll be eating up well into January, even if guests have made a big hole in the first.
Just as well they’re purely a Christmas thing!
Mince pies, OTOH…. I always make dozens, starting 1st December - never before, and I never buy any shop ones, always too much thick pastry for me, so again just as well they’re purely a midwinter thing. We do make pigs of ourselves for that one month.