Hillwood Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 lb. Prunes
• 1 breakfastcup Bread Crumbs
• 1 oz. Demerara Sugar
• 1 teaspoonful Baking Powder
• 1 teaspoonful ground Ginger
• same of Cinnamon
• grated peel of Lemon
• 1 breakfastcup Milk
• 2 Eggs

Method

1. 1

   Prunes to be well washed and soaked at least 1 hour, and stewed very slowly for 15 minutes, with sugar and a little lemon rind in the water they have been soaked in.

2. 2

   Stone and chop finely.

3. 3

   Mix well with crumbs, etc.

4. 4

   Only fill mould two-thirds full.

5. 5

   Steam for hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoonful Baking Powder, 2 tablespoonfuls Milk. Mix all well together, butter a basin or mould, and boil 3 hours. Cooked Grain To cook grain wdthout stirring, put the rice or other grain in tin canister (preferable to earthenware, because tin is a good conductor of heat) with a tight-fitting lid. Set in saucepan with boiling water f up tin. Cover, and keep water boiling fast till grain is cooked. If no canister is handy, a mould or cake tin will do, covered with plate or greased paper twisted tightly round. Room must be left for grain to swell, and a little butter will hasten the cooking. Half-pay Pudding;. i lb. Suet, i lb. Flour, ^ lb. Sugar, i lb. mashed Potatoes, i lb. grated Carrot, f lb. Currants, 2 oz. Peel, a little grated Nutmeg, 2 teaspoonfuls Baking Powder, 1 breakfastcupful Milk (heated). Mix, and j)ut in greased basin ; cover with plate, which tie on tightly with pudding cloth. Boil 6 hours, and servo with sauce. May be baked in little moulds, and served with sifted sugar over. Without ex^iggerating, it may be said that this pudding is equal in nutriment to 1| lb. beef steak. TRIED F AV on RITES COOKERY BOOK. 11? Herefordehire Pudding;. Peel and core 3 or 4 good apples ; mince them fine, and to every i lb. of apple add the same quantity of bread crumbs, and currants picked and washed, J lb. of sugar, and half a nutmeg, grated. Beat up 4 eggs, and mix the whole together. It may be either boiled in a buttered basin or mould, or baked in a dish with paste round the rim. Serve with sweet sauce. Hillwood Pudding*. 1 lb. Prunes, i breakfastcup Bread Crumbs, 1 oz. Demerara Sugar, i tea- spoonful Baking Powder, i teaspoonful ground Ginger, and same of Cinnamon, grated peel of Lemon, 1 breakfastcup Milk, or juice of Prunes and 2 Eggs

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