Steam Currant Pudding

Ingredients

• Cottolene
• salt
• sugar
• egg well beaten
• cups of flour
• milk
• teaspoons baking powder
• currants

Method

1. 1

   Mix and sift dry ingredients (reserving two tablespoons flour), rub in Cottolene.

2. 2

   Sprinkle two tablespoons flour over cleaned currants, add to mixture; add milk gradually, beat well, and turn into a buttered mold; cover and steam for two hours.

3. 3

   Serve with Dried Apricot and Hard Sauce.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty-two Sunday dinners (1913) by Elizabeth O. Hiller, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STEAM CURRANT PUDDING 3 tablespoons Cottolene. 3^ teaspoon salt. }/2 cup sugar. 1 egg well beaten. 9>]/2 cups flour. 1 cup milk. S}/2 teaspoons baking powder. }/2 cup currants. Process: Mix and sift the dry ingredients (reserving two table- spoons flour), rub in Cottolene with tips of fingers. Sprinkle two tablespoons flour over cleaned currants, add to first mixture; add milk gradually, beat well and turn into a buttered mold; cover and steam two hours. Serve with Dried Apricot and Hard Sauce. DRIED APRICOT SAUCE Wash and pick over dried apricots, soak over night in cold water to cover. Cook until soft and quite dry, in the water in which they were soaked. Rub through a sieve and sweeten to taste. Reheat, and drop a spoonful on each portion of pudding, place a small star of Hard Sauce in center and serve. }[ seZ'^ Sunday 5^ S UTiday Dinmrs 47 (menu Chicken Stew with Dumplings Onions in Cream Stewed Corn Watercress and Egg Salad Rhubarb Pie Cream Cheese Coffee STEWED CHICKEN Dress, clean and cut up a chicken (a year old). Put in a stew- pan, cover with boihng water. Add one small onion sliced, two stalks celery cut in pieces, two sprays parsley and one-half teaspoon peppercorns. Cover and cook slowly until tender. Add one table- spoon salt the last hour of cooking. Remove chicken, strain Uquor and remove some of the fat if necessary. Thicken the stock with two-thirds cup of flour

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