Christmas recipes #1
“I’m dreaming of a wide Christmas, one where my waistline overflows”
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Will a recipe make up for the sheer horror that is my sense of humour?
This recipe is from Good Housekeeping’s book of Menu, Recipes and Household Discoveries, New York, 1922. I came across it while I was doing research for the Prohibition Banquet.
EVERY MAN’S CHRISTMAS PUDDING
1 cupful suet chopped fine
1 teaspoonful salt
1 cupful molasses
1 teaspoonful cinnamon
1 teaspoonful soda
1/2 teaspoonful ground cloves
1 cupful rich milk
1/2 teaspoonful mace
31/2 cupfuls pastry flour
1 1/2 cupfuls seeded raisins
2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar
1 cupful currants or seedless
1 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
raisins
Mix together the suet and molasses. Add the soda and stir until foamy. Then add the milk and three cupfuls of the flour sifted with the cream of tartar, salt, and spices. Stir in last the seeded raisins chopped and the currants or the seedless raisins the latter cut in halves dusted with the remaining half-cupful of flour. Steam in a large pudding boiler or two smaller ones, well greased, four to five hours. Serve with York and Lancaster Sauce.
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