This section is from the book "Food And Health: An Elementary Textbook Of Home Making", by Helen Kinne, Anna M. Cooley. Also available from Amazon: Food And Health: An Elementary Textbook Of Home Making.
What and how much.
Suet chopped or
Beef fat
Raisins, currants, and citron sliced
Egg Sweet milk
Molasses
Soda
Salt
Flour
Bread crumbs
1 cup
1/2 cup 1 cup 1 1 cup
2 cup
1/2 teaspoonful 1/4 teaspoonful I cup 2 1/2 cups
How to make. Skin, wash, and chop the suet, and dredge with flour. Wash, pick over, and seed the dried fruit, slice the citron if it is used, and dredge all with flour. Stir together the milk and molasses, sift the dry materials with the flour, and stir the liquid into the flour slowly. Add the suet, beating the mass thoroughly, and last put in the fruit, sprinkling in both the suet and the fruit as you stir. Fill a greased mold or pail 1/3 full, close tightly, and cook in a kettle of boiling water for three hours. Serve with foamy sauce.
 
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