Derby Pudding. Time—2½ hours.
2 eggs, their weight in flour, weight of one egg in castor sugar, 3 oz. butter, 1 tablespoonful jam, small ½-teaspoonful carbonate of soda, 1 oz. glacé cherries or candied peel.
Butter a pudding-mould and ornament it with the cherries or candied peel. Cream the butter and sugar together, add the well-beaten eggs, mix the carbonate of soda and flour together and stir into the other ingredients; lastly add the jam and mix all together. Pour into the prepared mould and cover with a sheet of greased paper. Steam for 2 hours and serve hot with a sweet sauce over it.