English Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• I pound raisins
• % nutmeg
• % pound grated bread
• % pint brandy
• % pound flour
• % pound brown sugar
• I pound suet chopped fine
• i pound dried currants
• 5 eggs, salt
• y^ pound mixed candied orange peel
• I grated lemon rind

Method

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   This is the plum pudding winning the two-guinea prize (ten dollars, our money) offered by Queen Victoria.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

English Plum Pudding. I lo-cent loaf bread i quart rich milk I pound raisins i pound currants I pound brown sugar 3 tablespoons flour % pound beef suet 2 grated nutmegs 3 teaspoons cinnamon 2 lemons or oranges ^ pound cut up citron 10 eggs beaten separately Wash and seed your raisins, wash and dry the currants, chop the suet and get everything ready the day before making; also slice the baker's bread in thick slices and dry it in oven and grate it, stir your milk in it; then add the other ingredients beating it well, adding the whites last. Stir the flour on the fruit. Grate the orange peel, just the yellow rind (the white is always bitter), squeeze the juice and strain, making one-half cup of juice. Mix well and pour into a scalded and floured pudding bag if you wish to boil it, and place in a kettle of boiling water, and keep hot water to replenish with. Boil steadily five hours. Or put it in a tin mold or basin and steam it; if your mold has a tube in the center it will steam in three hours, if not, steam it five hours. This will keep three weeks. Leave it in bag and boil or steam it over one hour the day you use it. Some add to this two teaspoons of extract of nectarine, and three dozen of bitter and sweet almonds blanched and powdered. (I use no fruits in this pudding, but the raisins and oranges or lemons and the spices. I do not think it well to put everything into the stomach at once.) Use foaming or lemon sauce. ^~ - — • ,. » The Queen Cook Book 149 Engush Pjlum Pupbing. I pound raisins % nutmeg % pound grated bread % pint brandy % pound flour % pound brown sugar I pound suet chopped fine i pound dried currants 5 eggs, salt y^ pound mixed candied I grated lemon rind

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