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Old-Fashioned Irish Plum Porridge

From Soyer's standard cookery, 1912

Serves 4

Serve with sifted sugar and cream if possible.

Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 283. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Old-fashioned Irish plum porridge. Soak half a pound of oatmeal over-night in cold water. At the same time soak four ounces of well-washed currants in another dish. Grease a bag well, drain the currants, add them to the oatmeal together with a bit of butter the size of a walnut

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