1 teaspoonful mixed cinnamon and mace.
1 teaspoonful soda, wet up with boiling water.
2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, sifted in the flour.
Scald a pint of the milk, and with it wet the meal. Stir it up well, and let it get almost, or quite cold. While cooling, beat in the flour wet with cold milk. Beat all up hard and long. Make a custard of the remaining milk, the eggs and sugar. Beat gradually into the cooled paste. When all are mixed into a light batter, put in the butter, spice, the fruit, dredged well with flour; last of all, the dissolved soda. Beat up hard and quickly, bringing your spoon up from the bottom of the dish, and full of batter at every stroke. Pour into a buttered dish, and bake in a tolerably quick, steady oven. It should be done in from half to three-quarters of an hour, if the heat be just right. If it should brown too rapidly, cover with paper.
This is a very good pudding.
Corn-Meal Pudding without Eggs.
2 cups Indian meal.
1 cup flour.
2 table-spoonfuls sugar (or molasses).