Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• Twelve ounces of bread crumbs
• half a pound of currants
• half a pound of raisins
• twelve ounces of moist sugar
• three ounces of butter
• two ounces of candied lemon
• eight eggs
• one tea-cupful of apple sauce
• half a tea-cupful of milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the bread crumbs, add fruit, sugar, candied lemon, and spice.

2. 2

   Then add well-beaten eggs and mix.

3. 3

   After standing for twelve hours, add apple sauce or milk and boil in a buttered mould for three hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plum Pudding, Half a pound of flour, half a pound of currants or raisins, half a pound of grated carrots, half a pound of grated potatoes, quarter of a pound of butter, and four ounces of sugar. Mix aU together, adding a little salt and any other approved seasoning ; boil it in a buttered basin one hour and a half, and serve with sweet sauce. A large spoonful of treacle is an agreeable addition. No. 299. — Plum Pudding. One pound of flour, half a pound of bread crumbs, one pound of raisins, one pound of currants, six eggs, twelve ounces of sugar, four ounces of butter, two ounces of candied orange or lemon, and the grated rind of a lemon. Rub the butter in the floim ; add the bread crumbs, sugar, currants, and raisins, stoned and cut a little, the grated rind of a lemon, a little mace or nutmeg, the candied orange or lemon, cut in small slices, a small tea-spoonful of salt, the eggs, well beaten, and a little milk if required ; boil it in a buttered basin or mould five houi’s, and serve with sweet sauce. No. 300. — Plum Pudding. Twelve ounces of bread cnimbs, half a pound of currants, half a pound of raisins, twelve ounces of moist sugar, three ounces of butter, two ounces of candied lemon, eight eggs, and one tea-cupful of apple sauce, or half a tea-cupful of milk

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