English Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• Two cups molasses
• one cup milk
• two cups chopped suet
• two cups chopped raisins
• one teaspoon salt
• two teaspoons soda
• flour enough to make it stiff
• pound each of beef suet
• currants nicely washed and dried
• stoned raisins well floured
• two nutmegs
• one tablespoon mace
• one of cinnamon
• one-half of cloves
• one wine glass brandy
• one teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs, add milk, bread, flour, suet, currants, raisins, spices, and brandy.

2. 2

   Boil in bowls or moulds for five hours.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fish, Flesh and Fowl: A Cook Book of Valuable Recipes, All of which Have ... (1894) by Ladies of State Street Parish, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cup milk, one pint flour, teaspoon cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda. Sauce: Whites of two eggs, one and one-half cups sugar and juice of one lemon beaten stiff. Cottage. One cup sugar, one egg, three tablespoons melted butter, one cup milk, two cups flour, one tea- spoon cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda. Bake one-half hour. Serve with hot sauce. Cracker. One quart milk, eight tablespoons pounded cracker, four tablespoons sugar, five eggs, one-half pound raisins, piece of butter on top. Bake one-half hour. Columbia. Two and one-half cups flour, one cup molasses, one cup sour milk, one-half teaspoon cinna mon, one teaspoon soda, one-half cup chopped pork or suet, one-half cup raisins. Steam three hours. 50 PUDDINGS. Cocoanut. Boil ten minutes one quart milk and three tablespoons tapioca (which has soaked in water over night), then add and let boil five minutes longer, the beaten yolks of four eggs, one cup sugar, three tablespoons cocoanut; this should be cooking enough; pour in a fancy dish and cover with the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth with three tablespoons sugar; sprinkle cocoanut on top and brown lightly. To be eaten cold. Indian, i. One quart milk (reserving one cup); scald the milk, add three tablespoons meal wet in a little cold milk; boil two minutes, then add one cup molasses, the remainder of the milk, one-half cup cold water, one egg. Bake in a moderate oven at least three hours. 2. Three tablespoons Indian meal, one cup molas- ses, two quarts milk, two eggs, butter half the size of an egg, one tablespoon ginger and two teaspoons salt. Boil half the milk and pour it on the meal, then add all the rest and bake four or five hours. English Plum. Two cups molasses, one cup milk, two cups chopped suet, two cups chopped raisins, one teaspoon salt, two teaspoons soda, beat in the molas- ses, nutmeg, cloves and mace to taste, few strips citron and flour enough to make it stiff. Steam five hours. 2. Beat six yolks and four whites of eggs very light, and add to them a tumbler of sweet milk; stir in gradually one-fourth pound grated stale bread, one pound flour, three-quarters pound sugar, pound each of beef suet, chopped fine, currants nicely washed and dried, stoned raisins well floured; stir well, then add two nutmegs, a tablespoon mace, one of cinnamon, one-half of cloves, one wine glass brandy

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