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English Plum Pudding

A historical recipe from Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of All Classes, by H. J. Clayton (1883).

A historical recipe

Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of All Classes, by H. J. Clayton (1883). Project Gutenberg eBook #38823.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

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From Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of All Classes, by H. J. Clayton (1883). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #38823 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38823). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

United Kingdom. Associated with United Kingdom by a demonym leading its title: English (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Three cups flour;
  2. 2 eggs;
  3. 1 cup milk;
  4. 1/2 cup brandy;
  5. 1 nutmeg;
  6. a teaspoonful of salt;
  7. 5 teaspoonfuls baking powder;
  8. 1/2 pound currants;
  9. 1/2 pound raisins, stoned and chopped fine;
  10. 1/2 pound suet chopped fine;
  11. 1 cup sugar.
  12. Boil three hours.