Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
     2/3           cup  butter
     1/4          tsp.  salt
  1 1/2           cups  brown sugar
  1                tsp  cinnamon
  1                tsp  allspice
  2                     eggs
  1                can  beer -- (12 oz.)
  2 1/4           cups  flour
     1/2           cup  chopped walnuts
     1/2           cup  golden raisins
     1/2           tsp  baking powder
     1/2           tsp  baking soda
     1/4           cup  butter
  1 1/4           cups  powdered sugar
  1                     egg yolk
  1                tbl  honey

Preparation:

Cream butter and sugar until light. Beat in eggs. Combine flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon and allspice. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with beer. Mix until blended. Stir in walnuts and raisins. Turn into well greased and floured 2 quart pudding mold or coffee can. Place can or mold into crock put. Cover top of can with four or five layers of paper towels. Place lid loosely on crock pot. Cook on high, allowing 3 1/2 hours for a 3 quart pot and 4 hours for the 4 1/2 quart size. Cool on rack ten minutes, then turn out of can or mold. Serve warm with hard sauce or ice cream. To make the hard sauce, beat the 1/4 cup butter until creamy. Beat in the powdered sugar, egg yolk and honey.

Nutritional Information:

5924 Calories (kcal); 221g Total Fat; (33% calories from fat); 65g Protein; 946g Carbohydrate; 1042mg Cholesterol; 3377mg Sodium