Farmers' Plum Pudding
Ingredients
- 3 cupfuls flour
- 1 cupful sweet milk
- 1 cupful molasses, slightly warmed
- 1 pound chopped raisins
- 1 teaspoonful mixed cinnamon and mace
- 1 saltspoonful ginger
- 1 teaspoonful salt
- 1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water
- 1/2 cupful suet, powdered
Directions
Beat suet and molasses to a cream, add the spice, salt and two-thirds of the milk, stir in the flour, beat hard, add the rest of the milk with soda. Beat vigorously a moment or two and put in the fruit well dredged with flour. Boil in a buttered mold or a cloth for four hours. Serve hot.