Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• Half lb. flour
• i lb. bread crumbs
• f lb. suet
• i lb. stoned raisins
• i lb. sultanas
• i lb. currants
• J lb. chopped almonds
• A lb. smugar
• 1 firill of cream
• 1 gill of brav.dy
• £ toaspoonful essence of nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Put the flour and bread crumbs in a basin, chop the suet finely and cut up the raisins; clean the sultanas and currants by rubbing them on a sieve, with a little flour; cut the peel up, chop the almonds, beat up the eggs; add all the ingredients to the flour in the basin.

2. 2

   Mix in the eggs, cream, and brandy.

3. 3

   Put the mixture into a well-buttered mould, and steam for six hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Cameron's cookery book (1898) by Ida Cameron, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lb. stoned raisins, 2 lb. currants, 2 lb. figs, 2 lb. pre- served ginger, 2 lb. mixed peel, 3 lb. finely-chopped beef suet, 2 lb. cooked beef finely minced, 2 lb. apples chopped fine, ! 3 lb. moist sugar, 2 oz. bitter almonds blanched and chopped, 2 oz. cinnamon, 2 oz. cloves, 2 oz. ground ginger, 2 dessert- spoonfuls of lemon juice. Mix all well together and put in a jar. Two days after pour on 1 bottle of brandy and \ a bottle of port. Economical Mincemeat. One lb. stoned raisins, 1 lb. currants, J lb. mixed peel, 1 lb. chopped beef suet, i lb. cooked beef finely minced, J lb. applo minced, 1 lb. moist sugar, juice of one lemon, 1 oz. cinnamon, 1 oz. grated nutmeg, 1 oz. cloves, J oz. ground ginger, £ a bottle of brandy. Mix all well together and put into a jar till required. Cocoanut and Flcrador Pudding. Four oz, large-grained Florador, 1 quart milk, 2 eggs, 2 cs. castor sugar, J lb. desiccated cocoanut. Boil the Florador in the milk for ten minutes. Add the sugar and the cocoa- nut. Boat the eggs, and stir in. Bake in a pie-dish twentv minutes in a slow oven. » Plum Pudding. Half lb. flour, i lb. bread crumbs, f lb. suet, ^ lb. stoned raisins, i lb. sultanas, i lb. currants, J lb. chopped almonds, A lb. smrar. ,\ lb. mixed pool, 7 ocxrs* 1 firill of cream, 1 gill of brav.dy, £ toaspoonful essence of nutmeg

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