Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• Five eggs
• 1 teacup of sugar
• 1 cup of butter
• 3 cups of flour
• 1 teaspoon of soda
• % pound of raisins
• V^ pound of citron

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients thoroughly, put in a buttered mold, and steam for 3 hours.

2. 2

   Serve with sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 133. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plum Pudding. 4 One pound of plums, 1 pound currants, 1 pound raisins, 1 pound beef suet, 1 pound sugar, % pound candied peel, ^ pound of bread crumbs, y2 pound of flour, 8 eggs, spices to taste. Mix it with stout, old ale or milk, which ever preferred. Grease mold and fasten tight, boil 12 hours. Do not allow water to cover pudding when first put on. One-half the quantity may be used if desired. Pour on brandy and set on fire. Serve with brandy sauce. This is the original Eng- lish plum pudding recipe. Apple Pudding. Peel and core 6 tart apples, and fill with chopped raisins. Put in baking dish and set inside stove and cook until soft. Make a custard with 1 pint of new milk, 1 teacup of granulated sugar, 2 eggs, ^ pound of almond macaroons. Pour scalding milk on yolks and sugar, return to boiler and add the macaroons. Stir constant- ly, then pour over apples. Bake a light brown. If served hot, use a rich sauce flavored with sherry wine or brandy. If preferred cold, serve with whipped cream. Orange Pudding. Peel 5 oranges, cut in thin slices, remove the seed. Sprinkle over them 1 coffee cup of granulated sugar. Put 1 pint of rich milk in double' boiler, let it get hot. Have 3 yolks well beaten, with 1 tablespoon of cornstarch. Pour the hot milk over this, and stir well, then return to boiler and cook a few minutes, stirring all the while. (Can add a little cold milk to make it. smooth). As soon as thicken- ed pour over the fruit. Beat whites stiff and add 3 tablespoons of sugar, meringue and set in oven a few minutes. Berries or peaches can be substituted for oranges. Plum Pudding. Five eggs, 1 teacup of sugar, 1 cup of butter, 3 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of soda, % pound of raisins, V^ pound of citron

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