English Plum Pudding

Name: English Plum Pudding
Ingredients: ¼ lb. sugar.; 1 cup scalded milk.; ½ lb. stale bread crumbs.; ½ lb. raisins, seeded, cut in pieces, and floured.; 4 eggs.; ⅓ teaspoon clove.; ¼ lb. currants.; ⅓ teaspoon mace.; ¼ cup wine and brandy mixed.; ½ grated nutmeg.; ¾ teaspoon cinnamon.; ¼ lb. finely chopped figs.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

By Fannie Merritt Farmer

Published 1896

About

Ingredients

½ lb. stale bread crumbs.
1 cup scalded milk.
¼ lb.

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Soak bread crumbs in milk, let stand until cool, add sugar, beaten yolks of eggs, raisins, currants, figs, and citron; chop suet, and cream by using the hand; combine mixtures, then add wine, brandy, nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, mace, and whites of eggs beaten stiff. Turn into buttered mould, cover, and steam six hours.