College Pudding

Name: College Pudding
Ingredients: 4 oz. flour; 1–2 eggs; 1 gill milk (approx.); 2 oz. sultanas; 2 oz. currants; ½ teasp. mixed spice; ½ teasp. baking-powder; pinch of salt; 4 oz. breadcrumbs; 3 oz. finely-chopped suet; 3 oz. castor sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1861

About

Ingredients

4 oz. flour
½ teasp. baking-powder
pinch of sa

Dessert

Method

Grease 6–7 dariole moulds. Sift together the flour, baking-powder, salt and spice. Add the breadcrumbs, suet, sugar, currants and sultanas, and mix well together. Well beat the eggs. Add to the dry ingredients and mix to a soft dropping consistency, adding milk as required. Half-fill the moulds with the mixture. Bake in fairly hot oven (375° F., Gas 5) for about 25 min.; or