This is a picture of a completely vegan pudding. We added sultanas and cherries to make a nut free Christmas pudding. The problem is that some vegetarians and vegans cannot eat nuts or soya products and a lot of alternative food for the veggie market contains soya/tofu or nuts in some form or another which still are not suitable for many people who are looking for alternatives to meat.
The occultist Dion Fortune had another interest outside of magick and this was developing soya products. She actually wrote a book called 'The Soya Bean' and her father - lawyer, hotelier and chess player Arthur Firth - a distant member of the Sheffield steel Firth family, put money up for her husband Dr Penry Evans to further develop the soya bean as a food. However, civil war broke out in Spain where he had set up his studies with soya beans and Dr Evans was forced to abandon expensive equipment and leave the country.
The problem is that some veggie people are allergic to soya and tofu products as well as nuts and lots of well meaning alternative 'veggie' recipes contain these items.
The pudding above which can be made in various forms, is completely vegan as well as being soya and nut free. It is also made in the microwave for much faster results.
