Boiled Lemon Pudding

Ingredients

• half a pound of bread crumbs
• a quarter of a pound of suet
• two ounces of flour
• one pound of moist sugar
• two lemons
• two eggs
• two tablespoonsful of milk

Method

1. 1

   Boil a large saucepan of water.

2. 2

   Chop suet finely and mix with flour.

3. 3

   Sieve bread crumbs and add to the mixture with sugar.

4. 4

   Grate lemon rinds, squeeze juice into the mixture, and mix well.

5. 5

   Beat eggs with milk, add to the mixture, and pour into a buttered basin.

6. 6

   Cover with a cloth and boil for 1.5 hours.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The official handbook for the National Training School for Cookery (1891) by National Training School for Cookery (London), page 125. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOILED LEMON PUDDING. Average cost of a "Boiled Lemon Pudding" (in about 07ie pint basing INGREDIENTS. d. J lb. of bread crumbs 2 J lb. of suet 2 V 2 oz. of flour oj 1 lb. of moist sugar 1 2 lemons 3 2 eggs 2 2 tablespoonsful of milk oj 7V;#£ required, about two hours* Now we will show you how to make a Lemon Pudding. 1. We put a large saucepan full of water on the fire to boil. 2. We put a quarter of a pound of suet on a board, cut away all the skin, and chop it up finely. 3. We put two ounces of flour vt\ a basin, and add to it the chopped suety and rub the suet well into the flour with our fingers. N.B. — We must be careful not to leave any lumps. 4. We place a wire sieve over a plate ; we take half a pound of the crumb of bread, and rub it through the sieve, we add these bread crttmbs to the flour and suet ; we also add a quarter of a poitnd of moist sugar. 5. We take tzvo lemons, wipe them clean with a cloth, and grate the rinds of them into the basin ; we then cut the lemons in half, and squeeze in the juice of both the lemons; we must be careful not to let the pips fall into the basin : we mix all these ingredients well together. 6. We break two eggs into a basin ; and add to them two tablespoonsful of milk

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.