Poor Man’s Pudding

Ingredients

• Half-cupful of chopped suet
• half-cupful of seeded raisins
• half-cupful of currants
• one and one-half cupfuls of grated bread
• one cupful of flour
• one-quarter of a cake of compressed yeast
• half-cupful of brown sugar
• one pint of milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients well and pour into a well-buttered mould.

2. 2

   Set the mould in a saucepan with boiling water reaching halfway up the sides.

3. 3

   Steam for two hours, then turn out carefully and serve with butter and sugar.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 355. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Poor Man’s Pudding PUDDINGS, ETC. Queen of Puddings enters the dining-room let another person outside the door be furnished with a lighted match. Having poured the alcohol over the pudding, ignite it with the match, and a beautiful, leap- ing blue flame will gladden the eyes of the beholders. Poor Man’s Pudding. — Half-cup- ful of chopped suet, half - cupful of seeded raisins, half - cupful of cur- rants, washed and picked ; one and one-half cupfuls of grated bread, one cupful of flour, one-quarter of a cake of compressed yeast, half -cupful of brown sugar, one pint of milk

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