Christmas Pudding

Ingredients

• 4 oz. Albatross Self-Raising Flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• + teaspoon ground ginger
• 4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
• 4 teaspoon salt
• 4 oz. breadcrumbs
• 4 oz. shredded suet or chopped clarified fat
• 5-6 oz. sugar (dark brown, if possible )
• 12 oz. dried fruit (sultanas, raisins, currants )
• 3 oz. prunes, stoned and chopped
• 3 oz. chopped apples
• 1 oz. marmalade or chopped orange peel
• 3 eggs
• 1 dessertspoon black treacle or golden syrup
• 1 teaspoon liquid gravy browning
• 3 tablespoons liquid for mixing (milk, fruit juice, ale, stout, or cider)

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour, spices and salt together.

2. 2

   Add the breadcrumbs and suet or finely chopped fat.

3. 3

   Add the sugar.

4. 4

   Clean the dried fruits and cut at least half the sultanas and raisins in two to release their flavour into the pudding.

5. 5

   Add to the flour mixture, then stir in the apples and prunes and leave overnight.

6. 6

   Next morning beat well together the eggs, treacle (or syrup), gravy browning and marmalade (or orange peel) and stir them and the liquid into the above mixture.

7. 7

   Mix thoroughly.

8. 8

   Put into one good-sized basin (24-3 lb. size) or into two smaller ones.

9. 9

   Cover, stand on a rack in a pan with water coming half-way up the basin or basins, and boil hard for the first 0.5 hours, then a little less hard for a further hour.

10. 10

    Give the pudding a further 3 hours boiling on the day it is to be eaten.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Albatross recipe book (1930) by Spillers Limited, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHRISTMAS PUDDING 4 oz. Albatross Self-Raising Flour 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon + teaspoon ground ginger 4 teaspoon grated nutmeg 4 teaspoon salt 4 oz. breadcrumbs 4 oz. shredded suet or chopped clarified fat 5-6 oz. sugar (dark brown, if possible ) 12 oz. dried fruit (sultanas, raisins, currants ) 3 oz. prunes, stoned and chopped 3 oz. chopped apples 1 oz. marmalade or chopped orange peel 3 eggs 1 dessertspoon black treacle or golden syrup 1 teaspoon liquid gravy browning 3 tablespoons liquid for mixing (milk, fruit juice, ale, stout, or cider)

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