Fig Pudding

Ingredients

• -t lb. figs (cut finely).
• I lb. bread crumbs.
• •1- lb. suet (chopped).
• •t lb. sugar.
• •t lb. flour.
• 1 gill milk, or more.
• 1 egg.
• A little salt.
• •i- teaspoonful baking powder.

Method

1. 1

   Grease a basin or mould.

2. 2

   Mix dry ingredients, beat egg and milk, pour in and mix well.

3. 3

   Place in mould, cover with greased paper for steaming.

4. 4

   Boil or steam for 3 to 4 hours.

5. 5

   Serve plain or with lemon sauce.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery book and general axioms for plain cookery (1890) by E. Briggs, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 egg. 1 teaspoon ful grated ginger. 1 teaspoonful baking powder. Method : — Mix the flour, bread crumbs, ginger, and baking powder in a basin, add the suet, finely chopped, and the peel cut into small pieces. Mix the treacle, egg, and milk together, pour this on the dry ingredients, and mix well, making it rather moist. Boil or steam from 2 to 4 hours, or bake 1 hour. If liked, the egg need not be used. BAKED MACKEREL OR HERRINGS. Ingredients : — 2 good-sized mackerel or about 6 herrings. 6 tablespconfuls bread crumbs or 3 oz. 2 ,, chopped parsley. 1 teaspoonful herbs, or to taste. 2 tablespoonfuls dripping. Flour, salt, pepper, raspings. Method : — Cut the heads and fins of the fish, wash and dry them, and take the backbones out. Put the head, fins, and bones to stew for gravy. Sprinkle the fish lightly with pepper, salt, and flour, and lay it in a baking-tin containing the drip- ping melted. Mix the crumbs, parsley, and herbs, adding a little salt and pepper, and spread this over the mackerel in the tin, cover with the other, dredge again with pepper, salt and 69 flour, finishing with raspings. Bake in a hot oven about 4 hour, basting it a few times. N.B. — (1) Where an oven is a difficulty, a dutch oven will do for nearly all baked dishes of this kind. (2) This is intended especially for the oily class of fish, the bread crumbs absorbing the oil. So if white fish be cooked in this way, the forcemeat will require milk or fat. FIG PUDDING. Ingredients : — -t lb. figs (cut finely). I lb. bread crumbs. •1- lb. suet (chopped). -t lb. sugar. -t lb. flour. 1 gill milk, or more. 1 egg- A little salt. •i- teaspoonful baking powder.

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