Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• four cups of stale bread crumbs
• one cup chopped suet
• one cup molasses
• two eggs
• two cups raisins
• two cups milk
• one level teaspoon soda
• one teaspoon powdered cloves
• two cinnamon
• half each of mace
• half each of allspice
• half cup currants
• one cup chopped almonds

Method

1. 1

   Boil unceasingly in buttered mold for three and one-half hours; when sending to table garnish with holly; pour brandy over and ignite.

2. 2

   Serve with hard sauce.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 101. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plum Pudding. — Four eggs beaten well, but not separately; two large cups seeded raisins, half cup currants, one cup bread crumbs, one cup chopped citron, one cup pecans, two large apples chopped, one cup sugar, spice and brandy to taste; steam four hours. Make a sauce of butter and sugar and brandy, mixing brandy and sugar into butter little by little. Plum Pudding. — Two eggs, one cup of sugar, one table- spoon of butter, one cup of bread crumbs, one teaspoon baking powder, pinch of salt, one pound seeded raisins, two table- spoons of sweet milk; have the raisins well floured. Put in a thick domestic cloth; dip the cloth in boiling water and then flour that well and pour pudding on ; tie tight as possible ; put HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. 177 in pot of boiling water and boil three hours ; never let it cease boiling. Serve with hard wine sauce. — Mrs. A. H. Ellington. Plum Pudding. — Three cups of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, one cup of sour milk, a little salt, one cup of suet, one cup of raisins. Steam three hours. Sauce for same: To one pint of boiling water, add one heaping teacup of sugar, one table- spoonful of butter, pinch of salt, one tablespoonful of corn starch dissolved in cold water. Plum Pudding. — Mix four cups of stale bread crumbs, one cup chopped suet, one cup molasses, two eggs, two cups raisins, two cups milk, one level teaspoon soda, one teaspoon powdered cloves, two cinnamon, half each of mace, allspice and salt, one cup chopped almonds

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