Treacle Pudding

Ingredients

• A quarter of a pound of butter
• Two tablespoonfuls of milk
• One dessertspoonful of castor sugar
• A quarter of a pound of flour
• One egg
• A quarter of a pound of golden syrup
• One small teaspoonful of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs, and beat again; then add the flour, milk, and treacle by degrees, and lastly the baking powder; mix all well together, put it into a buttered basin, and boil it for two hours, not allowing the water to cover it; serve with golden syrup, made hot and poured round it.

2. 2

   The sugar may be omitted.

3. 3

   It may be made with breadcrumbs instead of flour, in which case it must be steamed, not boiled.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ocklye cookery book (1909) by Eleanor L. Jenkinson, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TREACLE PUDDINQ Ingredients A quarter of a pound of butter. Two tablespoonfuls of milk. One dessertspoonful of castor One small teaspoonful of baking sugar. powder. A quarter of a pound of flour. A quarter of a pound of golden One egg

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