Sultana Pudding

Ingredients

• ½ lb. Flour
• ½ lb. Sultanas
• ½ lb. Suet
• ½ lb. Castor Sugar
• 2 ozs. Candied Peel
• 1 teaspoonful of Baking Powder
• a little Nutmeg or Grated Lemon Peel
• ½ pint of Milk
• 1 Egg

Method

1. 1

   Sieve the flour, shred and chop the suet finely.

2. 2

   The sultanas must be well picked and cleaned with flour, and the candied peel cut in thin shreds.

3. 3

   Mix all the dry ingredients together, then beat up the egg in the milk and thoroughly mix.

4. 4

   Bake for half an hour in a greased tin.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Gas cookery (1885) by Helen Edden, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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