Baked Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• four ounces of good beef suet
• three-quarters of a pound of flour
• a heaped tea-spoonful of baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• four ounces of stoned raisins
• four ounces of picked and dried currants
• four ounces of sugar
• two ounces of candied peel chopped small
• an egg
• a table-spoonful of milk

Method

1. 1

   Chop the suet and mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.

2. 2

   Add suet, raisins, currants, sugar, and candied peel.

3. 3

   Beat the egg with milk and moisten the mixture.

4. 4

   It should be very stiff.

5. 5

   Grease a dripping-tin, put the mixture in, and bake in a well-heated oven for about an hour.

6. 6

   Cut into squares, sift sugar over it, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 77. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Plum Pudding. Parsnips. Muffins. Egg Sauce. Dry Toast. Roast Neck of Veal. Brown and White Bread Gammon of Bacon. and Butter. Potatoes. Bread and Milk. Stewed Endive. Wyvern Puddings. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day,— The best end of a Neck of Veal weighing about six pounds. Veal should be small, finely grained, with firm fat, of a pinkish- white colour. If the lean be flabby and discoloured, or in the least degree green, it is tainted. It should not be kept more than two or three days after it is killed, but if eaten too fresh it will be hard. A pennyworth of fresh Parsley : a quarter of & pound of Beef Kidney Suet, half a Pig’s Head and two Pig’s Feet for Brawn (see Marketing, January 7th) ; Muffins (see January 29th). A YEARS COOKERY. 91 * Breakfast. — Herrings (August 20th); Croquettes (January 6th); Muffins (January 30th) ; Bread and Milk (January 25th). Luncheon. — Baked Plum Pudding. — Chop finely four ounces of good beef suet. Mix thoroughly in a bowl three-quarters of a pound of flour, a heaped tea-spoonful of baking powder, and a pinch of salt. Add the chopped suet, four ounces of stoned raisins, four ounces of I picked and dried currants, four ounces of sugar, and two ounces of ( candied peel chopped small. Break an egg into a cup ; if perfectly fresh remove the speck, and beat the egg well with a table-spoonful of milk

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