Treacle Sponge

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoonfuls Flour
• 6ozs. Suet
• 2 teaspoonfuls Baking Powder
• Bb. brown Sugar
• 1 pinch of Salt
• 2 Eggs
• i tablespoonful Treacle

Method

1. 1

   Put all by degrees into a basin.

2. 2

   Stir well together.

3. 3

   In another basin beat the eggs, add a little milk, and the treacle.

4. 4

   Stir.

5. 5

   Put into a buttered mould, tie up with a cloth and steam for three hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The King's College Hospital book of cooking recipes (1907) by King's College Hospital, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 tablespoonfuls Flour. 6ozs. Suet. 2 teaspoonfuls Baking Powder. Bb. brown Sugar. 1 pinch of Salt. 2 Eggs. i tablespoonful Treacle. Put all by degrees into a basin. Stir well together. In another basin beat the eggs, add a little milk, and the treacle. Stir. Put into a basin, gradually stirring up all the time with the other things. Then put in a buttered mould, tie up with a cloth and steam for three hours. F. Austin. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL TO SOUTH LONDON. Turkish Pastry.— “ Kourabiedes.” Rub £lb. of fresh butter into £lb. of the finest rice flour;' add £lb. of finely powdered sugar, and a pinch of salt. Moisten, into rather a firm paste with orange flower water; knead lightly and divide into balls the size of a mandarin orange; bake for half an hour between sheets of buttered paper. Powder with sugar when done. Miss Baxter. Transparent Snowden Pudding’. jib. Breadcrumbs. jib. fresh Beef Suet, chopped fine. Mb. brown Sugar. Juice of i Lemon and ^ the rind grated. Put these, after mixing well, into a buttered mould or basin, with either raisins or currants stuck in the mould. Boil for one hour. The mould must be quite full, or the water gets in and spoils it. Serve with melted butter and marmalade syrup added to it. Miss A. Todd. Treacle Pudding. Mb. Beef Suet. Mb. Flour. 5 teaspoonful Baking Powder. Pinch of Salt. Mix with cold water, as little as possible; roll out and line a basin with the suet crust. Put in a table- spoonful of treacle or golden syrup, then a layer of the crust; repeat till the basin is full; cover with a cloth. Boil or steam for three hours or more. Turn out of basin and serve hot. Mrs. Rhys Powell. 139 IN AW OF THE FUND FOR THE REMOVAL OF Treacle Sponge. tjlb. Flour. 20zs. Suet. i teaspoonful Baking Powder, i teacupful Golden Syrup. If not sufficient to mix it, add a little milk; beat it well, flavour with ginger if liked. Steam four hours. Miss Perkin. Vegetable Puddling. ^lb. Flour. Ijlb. moist Sugar. ^lb. Currants. Mb. Raisins. Mb. Potatoes. Mb. Carrots. Mb. Suet. • i Nutmeg. 20ZS. mixed Peei. The potatoes and carrots to be grated. The whole to be well mixed and boiled five hours. Mrs. Rooke. iTfave for many years made all my Christmas pud- dings for rich and poor, from 12 to 20 each year, from the above recipe, and found it never to fail. It is a useful and excellent -puddifig at other times. A. R. I4Q 1 KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL TO SOUTH LONDON. Additional Recipes IN AID OF THE FUND FOR THE REMOVAL OF Additional Recipes KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL TO SOUTH LONDON. CREAMS AND COLD SWEETS. Apple Snow. 6 large Apples. ^lb. sifted Sugar. Whites of 2 Eggs

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