Required: One pound of flour.

Quarter of a pound of Damerara sugar.

Quarter of a pound of raisins.

Half a pound of chopped beef suet.

A few grains of salt.

Cold water.

One teaspoonful of baking-powder.

Chop the suet very finely, stone and halve the raisins. Mix together the flour, suet, sugar, raisins,salt,and baking-powder. Add, gradually, enough cold water to mix the whole into a soft paste. Roll it on a slightly floured pastry-board into a shape like a bolster. Roll it up in a cloth which has first been dipped in boiling water, then floured; tie the ends securely with string. Put the pudding in a saucepan of fast-boiling water, and let it boil steadily for three hours. Then take off the cloth and put the pudding on a hot dish.

N.B. - If more convenient, use currants instead of raisins, or chopped figs, or prunes make a pleasant change.