Plum Pudding (steamed)

Total Time: 2160 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 2160 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/3 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup suet, cleaned and ground fine
• 1 cup raisins or 1 cup currants
• 1 cup molasses
• 1/2 cup milk
• brandy (optional)
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon
• 1 dash nutmeg

Recipe

• 1 sift soda, salt and spice into the flour, rub in the suet and add raisins.
• 2 mix the milk and molasses, stir into the dry mixture.
• 3 butter a pudding mold.
• 4 turn mixture into mold.
• 5 steam for 3 hours.
• 6 remove from mold to serving plate.
• 7 cover with a clean tea towel.
• 8 keep pudding in insect-free, cool place for 3 months. (i just kept it covered in the 'fridge.).
• 9 pour brandy over pudding periodically, if desired.
• 10 hard sauce.
• 11 rub the butter to a cream in a warm bowl, add sugar gradually then the flavoring.
• 12 pack smoothly in a small dish.
• 13 keep on ice until very hard.