Grandma's Best Plum Pudding
Yield
12 servingsPrep
20 minCook
3 hrsReady
3½ hrsIngredients
Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
---|---|---|---|
1 | cup |
suet
finely chopped |
* |
1 | cup |
sugar
|
|
2 | cups |
bread crumbs
soft |
|
1 | cup |
all-purpose flour
|
|
2 | large |
eggs
well beaten |
|
1 | cup |
milk
|
|
¼ | cup |
orange juice
|
|
1 | teaspoon |
cloves
|
|
2 | teaspoons |
cinnamon
|
|
1 | teaspoon |
mace
|
|
½ | teaspoon |
salt
|
|
1 | teaspoon |
baking soda
|
|
1 | cup |
raisins, seedless
|
|
1 | cup |
currants
|
|
½ | cup |
nuts
chopped |
|
¼ | cup |
orange zest
finely chopped |
* |
¼ | cup |
lemon zest
finely chopped |
* |
Ingredients
Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
---|---|---|---|
237 | ml |
suet
finely chopped |
* |
237 | ml |
sugar
|
|
473 | ml |
bread crumbs
soft |
|
237 | ml |
all-purpose flour
|
|
2 | each |
eggs
well beaten |
|
237 | ml |
milk
|
|
59 | ml |
orange juice
|
|
5 | ml |
cloves
|
|
1E+1 | ml |
cinnamon
|
|
5 | ml |
mace
|
|
2.5 | ml |
salt
|
|
5 | ml |
baking soda
|
|
237 | ml |
raisins, seedless
|
|
237 | ml |
currants
|
|
118 | ml |
nuts
chopped |
|
59 | ml |
orange zest
finely chopped |
* |
59 | ml |
lemon zest
finely chopped |
* |
Directions
Mix the suet, sugar and bread crumbs together. Add eggs and beat. Sift together all the dry ingredients.
Combine the raisins, currants, nuts and fruit peel and sprinkle with ½ cup of the sifted dry ingredients.
Add orange juice to suet mixture; then add the milk and rest of dry ingredients alternately. Mix thoroughly. Stir in the fruits.
Fill greased pudding molds about ½ full; cover tightly and steam for 3 hours. Serve with any desired pudding sauce.