1/2 pound best Naples figs, washed, dried and minced.

2 cups fine bread-crumbs.

3 eggs.

1/2 cup best suet, powdered.

2 scant cups of milk.

1/2 cup white sugar.

A little salt.

A pinch of soda, dissolved in hot water and stirred into the milk.

Soak the crumbs in the milk; stir in the eggs beaten light with the sugar, the salt, suet and figs. Beat three minutes; put in buttered mould and boil three hours.

Eat hot with wine sauce. It is very good.