Plain Christmas Pudding

Ingredients

• one and one-half pounds of flour
• three teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• one pound of suet
• ten well-beaten eggs
• one teacupful of milk
• one-quarter of a pound of sugar
• one pound of raisins
• one pound of currants
• one teaspoonful of cinnamon
• one teaspoonful of allspice
• one teaspoonful of ground cloves
• two ounces of citron
• the grated rind and juice of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Sift and mix flour with baking powder.

2. 2

   Chop suet and mix with eggs, milk, sugar, raisins, currants, and spices.

3. 3

   Mix thoroughly, dip pudding cloth in hot water, sprinkle with flour, tie up, and boil for five hours.

4. 4

   Serve with rich sauce.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 188. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pound of currants, one-quarter pound each of mixed peel, chopped suet and split almonds, one-half cup- ful of molasses, five eggs, three-quarters of a pound of stale bread-crumbs, two or three tablespoonfuls of flour; flavor to taste and sweeten with brown sugar. Boil five or six hours. Serve with hard sauce. Mrs. L. Duncan. PLAIN CHRISTMAS PUDDING. Sift and mix with one and one-half pounds of flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking-powder; chop fine one pound of suet and mix with it ten well- beaten eggs, one teacupful of milk, one-quarter of a pound of sugar, one pound of raisins seeded and chopped and the same quantity of currants, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, allspice and ground cloves, the grated rind and juice of a lemon and two ounces of citron

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