King George I’s Christmas Pudding

Name: King George I’s Christmas Pudding
Total time: 12 min
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: small raisins 1 lb.; Suet 1½ lb. finely shredded; Demerara sugar 1 lb.; mixed spice 1 teaspoonful; nutmeg ½; candied orange peel 4 oz.; plums 1 lb. (stoned and cut in half); candied citron peel 4 oz.; (cut in thin strips) candied lemon peel 4 oz.; new milk ½ pint; sifted flour 1 lb.; eggs 1 lb. (weighed in their shells); bread-crumbs 1 lb.; salt 2 teaspoonfuls; brandy 1 wineglassful.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
15 min

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

This recipe is said to have been in the possession of the Royal Family from the days of George I.

Ingredients

Suet 1½ lb. finely shredded
Demerara sugar 1 lb.

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert

Method

Mix all the dry ingredients together.
Beat the eggs to a froth.
Add ½ pint new milk, and the brandy.
Use this mixture to moisten the dry ingredients.
Stand 12 hours in a cool place.
Then put in buttered moulds wh