Yule Dumplings

Ingredients

• two small loaves of bread
• a sufficient quantity of cold milk
• Two ounces of the small
• one ounce of the large raisins
• some blanched and finely-bruised or grated bitter almonds
• a piece of rubbed butter
• two or three eggs
• two or three spoonfuls of flour

Method

1. 1

   Cut the bread into slices and pour over cold milk to soften.

2. 2

   Press the bread gently, then mix in the raisins, almonds, lemon-peel, mace, sugar, butter, and eggs.

3. 3

   Form into dumplings and boil in water until done.

4. 4

   Serve with cream sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 2350. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Yule Dumplings.— Cut two small loaves of bread made of milk into slices, and pour over them a sufficient quantity of cold milk to render them soft; having gently pressed the bread, then add to it the following :— Two ounces of the small and one ounce of the large raisins, picked and washed, some blanched and finely- bruised or grated bitter almonds, grated lemon- peel, mace, and sugar, a piece of rubbed butter, and two or three eggs. All these ingredients to be well mixed together with two or three spoonfuls of flour

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