English Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• one pound raisins
• three-fourths pound of suet
• one-fourth pound of citron
• one pound of grated bread
• half a pound of sugar
• a teaspoon of salt
• a teaspoon of cinnamon
• mace and cloves mixed
• four beaten eggs
• half a cup of milk

Method

1. 1

   Chop together raisins, suet, and citron; add grated bread, sugar, salt, cinnamon, and mixed spices; stir in beaten eggs diluted with milk; turn into a buttered mould and steam about six hours; serve with egg sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

half a cup of milk, half a cup of molasses and a teaspoon of ginger; make a batter by stirring this into the flour; pour all into a mould or pudding dish that has been well greased and steam for about two hours. Plum Duff One cup suet, one cup raisins, half a cup molasses, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, two or three eggs, two teaspoons baking powder, ground cloves, cinnamon, small piece of citron. Steam two hours. Puddings and Pudding Sauces 167 Tapioca Pudding Soak half a cup of tapioca, when soft cook in a double boiler with one quart of milk, to which has been added a pinch of salt; beat yolks of four or five eggs with one cup of sugar, and add after the tapioca has cooked for about twenty minutes; stir until thick, then take from the fire and add butter the size of a walnut and one tablespoon vanilla, or vanilla to taste. Beat the whites of eggs until stiff with two tablespoons sugar; cover the pudding and put it in the oven to brown. Bread Pudding One quart scalded milk, one-third cup sugar, two cups stale bread crumbs, half cup melted butter, two eggs, one tea- spoon vanilla, or quarter teaspoon of spice; soak bread crumbs in milk; set aside until cool, add sugar, butter, eggs slightly beaten, salt and flavoring. Bake one hour in buttered pudding dish in slow oven; serve with vanilla sauce. In preparing bread crumbs for pudding, avoid using outside crusts; with a coarse grater there need be very little wasted. Vanilla Sauce for Above One-half cup sugar, one cup boiled water, one tablespoon cornstarch, or one and a half tablespoons flour, two tablespoons butter, one and a half of vanilla, few grains of salt; mix sugar and cornstarch, add water gradually, stirring constantly; boil five minutes; remove from fire; add butter and vanilla. Ginger Pudding One-half cup sugar, half cup butter, one cup of sour milk, two and a half cups flour, dessertspoon ginger, one large tea- spoon soda, pinch of salt. Steam one hour and a half. Sauce for Above One tablespoon butter, half cup of sugar, one scant table- spoon of flour, a pinch of salt, cinnamon, cloves and a little nutmeg. Put all together, then pour boiling water and stir until thick as cream. Yellow Sauce , Two eggs, one cup powdered sugar, three tablespoons wine. 168 The Toronto Cook Book Cottage Pudding One cup sugar, one cup sweet milk, one pint of flour, two teaspoons melted butter, one and a half teaspoons baking powder one egg; bake in a quick oven. Cup Pudding Hot One egg, half cup sugar, half cup milk, one tablespoon butter, one and a half cups flour, one and a half teaspoons baking powder; put in cups and steam three-quarters of an hour, not more; put a dessertspoon of jelly in the bottom of each cup. With this serve sauce made as follows: — Juice and rind of one lemon, half cup sugar, one spoon butter, one cup boiling water, a scant tablespoon of cornstarch. Suet and Fruit Pudding Two and a half cups flour, one teaspoon soda, half teaspoon salt, half saltspoon cinnamon, half saltspoon nutmeg, one cup chopped suet, one cup chopped raisins or currants, one cup milk, one cup molasses; sift the soda, salt and spice into the flour and add raisins. Mix the milk with the molasses and stir it into the dry mixture. Steam in a buttered mould for three hours. Serve with Foam Sauce. English Plum Pudding Chop together one pound raisins, three-fourths pound of suet; add one-fourth pound of citron, chopped fine, then add one pound of grated bread, half a pound of sugar, a teaspoon of salt, a teaspoon of cinnamon, mace and cloves mixed, and when thoroughly blended stir in four beaten eggs

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