Grandma's Best Plum Pudding
Grandma's Best Plum Pudding recipe
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 |
*
|
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.
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