1 teaspoonful of salt.
Beat suet and molasses to a cream; add the spice, the salt, and two-thirds of the milk; stir in the flour; beat hard; put in the rest of the milk, in which the soda must be stirred. Beat vigorously up from the bottom for a minute or so, and put in the fruit well dredged with flour. Boil in a buttered mould at least three hours.
Eat very hot with butter-and-sugar sauce.
Nursery Plum Pudding.
1 scant cup of raw rice.
1 table-spoonful rice-flour, wet up with milk.
3 pints rich milk.
2 table-spoonfuls butter.
4 table-spoonfuls sugar.