Old English Plum Pudding

To make what is called pound pudding take:

1 pound of raisins, stoned.

1 pound of Zante currants, washed and dried.

1 pound finely chopped suet.

1 pound grated stale bread.

Mix these ingredients and add:

1 pound sugar. 1 quart of milk. 1 blade of mace. 1 quart of milk.

1 pound flour.

6 eggs, well-beaten.

½ nutmeg, grated.

1 pound blanched almonds.

Citron, shredded, and candied orange and lemon peel may be added to enrich it, but are not absolutely necessary. Sultana raisins may also be added, but the rule given above without these extra ingredients will be found very nice. A wineglassful of rose-water will be found an addition.

Beat the eggs, mix with the milk and add after the other articles are mixed together.

If the milk should be found hardly enough to moisten the pudding sufficiently, add a very little more.

Put in a cloth, tying firmly and allowing room for the pudding to swell. Boil eight to ten hours, never allowing the water to cease boiling.

A better way is to divide the rule. The pudding may. also be boiled in 1 large or several small basins with floured cloths tied over the tops. There is not so much loss of sweetness in this case.

Serve hot with Vanilla Sauce or Hard Sauce, May be kept' tied up for months; when wanted, boil one hour.

Plum puddings of all kinds may be boiled four or five hours the day before using, hung up in the cloth, and finished boiling the next day in time to serve hot.

Farmers' Plum Pudding

3 cupfuls flour. 1 cupful sweet milk.

1 cupful molasses, slightly warmed. 1 pound chopped raisins. 1 teaspoonful mixed cinnamon and mace. 1 saltspoonful ginger. 1 teaspoonful salt.

1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water. ½ cupful suet, powdered. Beat suet and molasses to a cream, add the spice, salt and two-thirds of the milk, stir in the flour, beat hard, add the rest of the milk with soda. Beat vigorously a moment or two and put in the fruit well dredged with flour. Boil in a buttered mold or a cloth for four hours. Serve hot with the same sauce as above.

Yankee Plum Pudding

1 quart sour cream or milk.

2 eggs.

1 teaspoonful soda.

1 tablespoonful sugar. 1 small cupful raisins.

Thicken into a stiff batter with half flour and half corn-meal. Steam two hours. Eat with sweet cream or some hot plain pud-. ding sauce.