Nana's Christmas Plum Pudding
9 eggs1#[cup] raisins, currants, sugar
1 1/2 # flour,
1 1/2 # grated bread crumbs
1# Suet chopped fine, slightly salted
1/4# each citron, orange, lemon
1 tsp each cinnamon, nutmeg
1/2 tsp cloves
2tsp pkg. pwd, sifted thru flour.
Mix dry ingredients. Add 9 eggs & enough milk for stiff batter. Dip bag in hot water - wring out - flour thoroughly. Drop in pudding - leave room to swell before tying with string. Have broken plate in bottom of kettle to prevent burning. Cover with boiling water & boil hard for 8 hrs (replenishing water)
BRANDY SAUCE
(which is why you make the pudding!)Cream 1 c butter
1 c sugar
When light add 4 beaten eggs. Stir in 1 wine glass of brandy & a pinch of salt + 1 C cream or milk. Beat well. Place over fire stirring till thickened like cream. Do NOT BOIL.) Double boiler good idea -
Serve pudding & sauce hot -
Submitted by Karen Louise Lindgren Bradford
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