Christmas Plum Pudding, Royal

Ingredients

• three-quarters of a pound of breadcrumbs
• one pound of flour
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• three-quarters of a pound of chopped suet
• one and a half pounds of muscatel raisins
• half a pound of currants
• six ounces of candied peel
• six or eight bitter almonds
• half a pound of moist sugar
• six good eggs
• one gill of milk
• two teaspoonfuls of carbonate of soda
• a wineglassful of brandy

Method

1. 1

   Mix breadcrumbs, flour, salt, suet, raisins, currants, candied peel, almonds, and sugar.

2. 2

   Whisk eggs and stir in with milk, soda, and brandy.

3. 3

   Tie in a floured cloth and boil for 4 hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 93. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Christmas Pmm Pudding, Royal. The old- fashioned idea is still the best idea, and ceitainly a wise one, to make your Christmas puddings and mince pies early in December, as suet gets very dear at Christmas time. A good plum pudding will keep for six months, and more ; it is not a bad plan to make several puddings and boil them, and hang them up until wanted. The undermentioned will not be found an expensive recipe, but a good pudding. Take some stale bread and rub it through a sieve until you have three-quarters of a pound of bread¬ crumbs, put these into a bowl with one pound of flour, and half a teaspoonful of salt; add three- quarters of a pound of chopped suet, one and a half pounds of muscatel raisins, half a pound of currants, picked and dried, six ounces of candied peel, six or eight bitter almonds, half a pound of moist sugar. Prepare the raisins by cutting each one in half and removing the pips. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly, whisk six good eggs wTell, stir them into the pudding, and add one gill' of milk, two teaspoonfuls of carbonate of soda, and a wineglassful of brandy

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