Baked Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• a loaf of stale bread
• one quart of milk
• half a pound of currants
• half a pound of raisins
• a quarter of a pound of citron
• one nutmeg
• one tablespoonful of mace and cinnamon mixed
• one cupful of sugar
• half of a cupful of butter
• eight eggs
• a glassful of white wine

Method

1. 1

   Grate the stale bread for a pint of crumbs.

2. 2

   Boil the milk and pour it over the grated bread; cover and steep for an hour.

3. 3

   Prepare currants, raisins, and citron.

4. 4

   Mix butter, sugar, spices, and wine with the bread mixture.

5. 5

   Beat eggs and stir in when cool.

6. 6

   Add dredged raisins and currants, mix well, and bake for two hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 255. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED PLDM PUDDING. It will be found best to prepare tbe ingredients the daj before and cover closely. Grate a loaf of stale bread, or enough for a pint of crumbs ■ boil one quart of milk and turn boiling hot over the grated bread ; cover and let steep an hour ; in the meantime pick, soak and dry half a pound of currants, half a pound of raisins, a quarter of a pound of citron cut in large slips, one nutmeg, one tablespoonful of mace and cinnamon mixed, one cupful of sugar, with half of a cupful of butter ; when the bread is ready mix with it the butter, sugar, spice and citron, adding a glassful of white wine ; beat eight eggs

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