Christmas Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• One cupful chopped beef suet
• two cupfuls fine bread crumbs
• one heaping cup sugar
• one heaping cup seeded raisins
• one heaping cup currants
• one heaping cup chopped blanched almonds
• one-half cup citron sliced thin
• one teaspoonful salt
• one teaspoonful cloves
• two teaspoonfuls cinnamon
• one-half teaspoonful grated nutmeg
• four eggs, well beaten
• Dissolve level teaspoonful of soda
• from a pint of flour

Method

1. 1

   In a large bowl, put the well beaten eggs, sugar, spices, and salt in a cupful of milk.

2. 2

   Stir in fruit, chopped almonds, suet, and bread crumbs, one after the other until all are used.

3. 3

   Put in the soda last and add enough flour to make the fruit stick together.

4. 4

   Boil or steam for four hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 126. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Christmas Plum Pudding. One cupful chopped beef suet, two cupfuls fine bread crumbs, one heaping cup sugar, one heaping cup seeded raisins, one heaping cup currants, one heaping cup chopped blanched almonds, one-half cup citron sliced thin, one teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful cloves, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful grated nutmeg, four eggs, well beaten. Dissolve level teaspoonful of soda in a tablespoonful of warm water. Flour the fruit thoroughly from a pint of flour

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