After more than 80 years, a family’s plum pudding business nearly came unstuck

For more than 80 years Ross Carter’s family has been making and selling Christmas plum puddings. But the 2021 batch was almost brought undone by a lack of one simple but crucial item – cloth.

There was also a 12-week wait for bicarb soda, and even the clips used to seal the pudding bags were difficult to get.The business starts the process of making the puddings in October, but the material they wrap them in didn’t arrive until December 10, when the order Dr Carter made in February finally arrived. Since then it’s been all systems go.Ross Carter and son Duncan pick and gather cloth to tie the pudding.

The team of family and lifelong friends at Ray’s Traditional Home Made Plum Pudding factory in Essendon North.“We don’t know any different, this is just what you do in our family at this stage,” he said.

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