Excellent Pudding

Ingredients

• a pound of finely-chopped suet
• one pound of stoned raisins
• one pound of currants
• eight yolks of egg
• four whites of egg
• half a pound of bread-crumb
• one pound of flour
• one pound of sugar
• half a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg
• a dessert-spoonful of powdered ginger
• a pinch of salt
• half a tumblerful of rum
• some strips of mixed peel
• the grated peel of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Whip up the eggs, add a little milk, and stir into the remainder of the ingredients.

2. 2

   If too thick, moisten with milk.

3. 3

   Tie up in a pudding-cloth and boil for five or six hours.

4. 4

   Serve with either rum or Madeira sauce.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from 366 menus and 1200 recipes of the Baron Brisse in French and English (1884) by Brisse, L©♭on baron, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Excellent pudding. Stewed pigeons with asparagus heads. Stew the same as pigeons and green peas (see below); but the asparagus taking a shorter time to cook must be added only a few minutes before taking off the fire. Stewed pigeons and green peas. Split your pigeons open down the backs, stuff with their livers chopped up with bacon, bread-crumbs soaked in milk, chopped herbs, salt and pepper. Warm some butter in a saucepan; when brown add a little chopped bacon and the pigeons, moisten with half a tumberful of water, season with two onions, a bouquet of herbs, salt and pepper; add a pound of green peas, and simmer over a slow fire for an hour. Remove the ‘bouquet of herbs, and dish up the pigeons on the peas. The sauce must not be too thin. An excellent pudding. Take a pound of finely-chopped suet, one pound of stoned raisins, one pound of currants, eight yolks of egg, four whites of egg, half a pound of bread-crumb, one pound of flour, one pound of sugar, half a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, a dessert-spoonful of powdered ginger, a pinch of salt, half a tumblerful of rum, some strips of mixed peel, and the grated peel of a lemon

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