Christmas Plum-Pudding

Ingredients

• one pound of raisins
• a glass of brandy
• a pound of currants
• a pound of beef-suet
• four tablespoonfuls of flour
• two ounces of citron
• one ounce of candied lemon
• one ounce of candied orange peel
• one orange
• one lemon
• four ounces of shelled almonds
• one pound of sugar
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one pound of dry bread
• eight eggs
• one glass of good brandy
• one glass of sherry
• just enough cream or rich milk

Method

1. 1

   Soak raisins in brandy.

2. 2

   Prepare currants, suet, and other ingredients.

3. 3

   Mix all ingredients by hand, fill a buttered mould, and boil for ten hours.

4. 4

   Serve hot, optionally flaming with rum or brandy.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 245. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHRISTMAS PLUM-PUDDING. Stone one pound of raisins, put them in a bowl, pour over them a glass of brandy, and let them stand while the rest of the ingredients are being prepared. Pick over a pound of currants, wash them thoroughly in plenty of cold water, rub them dry on a towel, and then in a sieve with a little flour to separate the stems from them. Free a pound of beef-suet from skin, and chop it fine with four tablespoonfuls of flour. Cut in thin slices two ounces of citron and one ounce each of candied lemon and orange peel. Grate the yellow rind and squeeze the juice of one orange and one lemon. Pour boiling water on four ounces of shelled almonds ; let them remain in it until the skins become moist, then rub them off the nuts with a clean dry towel, and cut each nut in three or four slices. Grate one nutmeg, and sift it into a pound of sugar, with one teaspoonful of salt. Crumb one pound of dry bread from the inside of a stale loaf. Then mix to- gether all these ingredients with the hand, adding to them eight eggs, one glass each of good brandy and sherry, and just enough cream or rich milk

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