Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• 4 lb. butter
• ½ lb. powdered sugar
• 1 gill cream
• 1 gill rum
• ½ lb. chopped suet
• 1 cup chopped raisins
• 1 cup currants
• ½ lb. chopped citron
• 6 eggs
• 1 tea-spoon ground spices
• Bread-crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar to a cream.

2. 2

   Add the rum and cream.

3. 3

   Beat well.

4. 4

   Add the suet and well-floured fruit.

5. 5

   Beat the eggs together till very light.

6. 6

   Add then the spices and sufficient fine bread-crumbs to make a stiff batter.

7. 7

   Pour into a buttered mould.

8. 8

   Boil five hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The pudding and pastry book (1900) by Elizabeth Douglas, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lb. powdered sugar 6 eggs Wine glass of kirsch Beat the sugar and eggs together until creamy and light. Add the kirsch and stand in a sauce- pan of hot water. Set over a slow fire and stir continually until the mixture thickens. It must not boil. Take off the fire and add the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Serve at once. 74 Pastry Book , — Palace Pudding \ lb. butter j lb. castor sugar 3 eggs tea-spoon vanilla | lb flour Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar and well-beaten eggs. Beat thoroughly. Add the flour. When well mixed add the vanilla. Butter a mould. Sprinkle it with powdered sugar. Steam one hour. Before turning out, let the pudding stand for a minute or two. *Pine-Apple and Rice Mould | lb. rice 1 pint milk 3 eggs. 5 lb. pine-apple Syrup f 11). tinned apricots 2 table-spoons powdered sugar 1 table-spoon kirsch Cook the rice in the milk in a double boiler until it is very tender and the milk is all absorbed. 75 The Pudding and Cut the pine-apple in small pieces and let it simmer for several minutes in a little syrup (see p. 151). Beat three whole eggs well together. Add them to the rice and then the pine-apple. When well mixed pour into a buttered mould. Bake for about half-an-liour. Mash the apricots. Add the sugar. When melted pass through a sieve. Add the kirsch, pour over the pudding. Plum Pudding 4 lb. butter | lb. powdered sugar 1 gill cream 1 gill rum | lb. chopped suet 1 cup chopped raisins 1 cup currants b lb. chopped citron 6 eggs 1 tea-spoon ground spices Bread-crumbs

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