Steamed Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• One cupful each bread crumbs
• molasses
• brown sugar
• suet
• currants
• sweet milk
• two cups each of flour
• raisins
• one-fourth cup each candied lemon
• and orange peel
• one-half cup of citron, chopped fine
• one tablespoonful of cinnamon
• one-half tablespoonful of cloves
• one teaspoonful of mace
• one nutmeg
• one teaspoonful of allspice
• two large teaspoonfuls of soda
• one teaspoonful of ginger

Method

1. 1

   Soak the bread crumbs in cold water, add the milk and molasses, with the soda, the sugar, the suet, chopped fine, next the spices and the fruit, rolled in one cup of the flour, mix well, then add the rest of the flour with teaspoonful of salt.

2. 2

   Put in a well greased mould, and steam three hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 91. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STEAMED PLUM PUDDING. One cupful each bread crumbs, molasses, brown sugar, suet, currants and sweet milk; two cups each of flour and raisins, one- fourth^cup each candied lemon and orange peel, one-half cup of citron, chopped fine, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one-half tablespoonful of cloves, one teaspoonful of mace, one nutmeg, one teaspoonful of allspice, two large teaspoonfuls of soda, one teaspoonful of ginger

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