English Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 lb. raisins
• 1 lb. currants
• 1 lb. beef suet chopped very fine
• 1/2 lb. brown sugar
• 1/2 lb. flour
• 1/2 lb. bread crumbs
• 1/2 lb. mixed peel
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon mixed spices
• 8 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients thoroughly, boil in a floured cloth for 10 to 12 hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from San Rafael cook book, 1906 (1906) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1% lbs. bread crumbs, 12 eggs, 1% lbs. finely chopped suet, % lb. mixed candied peel, rind of 1 lemon, a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon, a few drops of almond flavor, 1 wineglass of whiskey or brandy. Cut the raisins, but do not chop them; cut the candied peel in thin slices; wash and pick the currants, and dry them; mix all the ingreJients together and moisten with the eggs (if too moist, sprinkle a little flour over) ; stir in the brandy. Scald and flour a pudding cloth, put in the pudding and tie up fairly tight; boil for 6 hrs. 2 or 3 puddings may be made instead of 1, as they will keep for several weeks if hung up in a dry, cool place. Kxcellent. PLUM PUDDING^Mrs. J. E. Alexander. 1 lb. butter, 1 lb. suet chopped fine and free from shreds, 1 lb. sugar, 2% lbs. flour, 2 Tbs. raisins seeded and chopped fine and dredged with flour, 2 lbs. currants carefully washed, 14 lb. citron finely shredded, 12 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, 1 pt. milk, 1 cup brandy, % oz. cloves, % oz. mace, 2 grated nutmegs. Beat together cream, butter and sugar, and mix in the yolks when beaten smooth and light. Add the milk, then the flour alternately with the beaten whites. Then add the brandy and spice, and lastly the fruit well dredged with flour. Mix all thoroughly. Wring out pudding cloth in hot water, flour well in- side, pour in the mixture, and boil 5 hrs. ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING^— Mrs. Thos. Menzies. 1 lb. raisins, 1 lb. currants, 1 lb. beef suet chopped very fine, % !!>• brown sugar, % lb. flour, % lb. bread crumbs (stale bread), V2 lb. mixed peel (orange, lemon and citron), 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon mixed spices, and 8 eggs

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.