Christmas Pudding

Ingredients

• two and one half cups flour
• one teaspoon soda
• one teaspoon salt
• one teaspoon cinnamon
• one teaspoon mace
• one teaspoon allspice
• two teaspoons baking-powder
• one cup raisins
• one fourth cup citron
• one half cup figs
• one half cup pecans
• one cup milk
• one cup molasses
• two thirds cup softened butter

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, soda, salt, cinnamon, mace, allspice, and baking powder.

2. 2

   Stir in milk, molasses, and softened butter; add fruit and turn into buttered moulds.

3. 3

   Steam for three hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The school kitchen textbook (1915) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 88. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Christmas Pudding Mix two and one half cups flour, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon each salt, cinnamon, mace and allspice, and two teaspoons baking-powder. Have one cup raisins, one fourth cup each citron and figs, and one half cup pecans cut fine and floured slightly. Stir into the flour mixture one cup milk, one cup molasses, and two thirds cup softened butter

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