Custard Pudding.—1½ pints milk, 4 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons extract vanilla, and pinch of salt. Beat eggs and sugar together; dilute with milk and extract; pour into buttered pudding-dish, set in oven in dripping-pan ⅔ full of boiling water; bake until firm, about 40 minutes, in moderate oven.
Fig Pudding.-½ pound good dried figs, washed, wiped, and minced; 2 cups fine dry bread crumbs, 3 eggs, ½ cup beef suet, powdered; 2 scant cups sweet milk, ½ cup white sugar, in which 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder has been mixed, little salt. Soak the crumbs in milk, add eggs, beaten light with sugar, salt, suet, and figs. Beat 3 minutes; put in buttered mold with tight top, set in boiling water with weight on cover to prevent mold from upsetting, and boil 3 hours. Eat hot with hard sauce made of butter, powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon extract nutmeg.
Indian Pudding.-½ cup flour, 1½ cups Indian corn meal, ½ cup syrup, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 quart milk. Mix flour, corn meal, salt, and cup milk together; pour the rest on it, boiling; stir once in a while for 30 minutes; bake in moderate oven 2 hours in well-buttered pudding-dish; serve with wine sauce.
Lemon Suet Pudding.—3 cups stale bread, 1 cup suet, ½ cup sugar, mixed with 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 4 eggs, 1 tablespoon extract lemon, 1½ pints milk, pinch salt. Grate bread, chop suet, freed of skin, very fine, put them in bowl; add sugar, eggs, beaten, salt, and extract; pour over boiling milk, stirring it the while; suffer it to stand 30 minutes, covered, then pour into well-buttered pudding-dish; bake in moderate oven 40 minutes; serve with sugar sauce.
Orange Pudding.—1½ cups stale Royal unfermented bread, 1 cup finely chopped suet, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, juice of 1 orange or 1 tablespoon extract orange, ½ cup milk. Mix all thoroughly together, fill 6 cups, well greased, boil 30 minutes. Turn out on dish, serve with hard sauce flavored with 1 teaspoon extract orange.
Peach Cottage Pudding.—Make a batter with ½ cup sugar, 3 tablespoons melted butter, 1 beaten egg, 1 cup milk, 2 cups flour, 1½ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Stir in 2 cups sliced peaches, bake in a loaf and serve with hard sauce.
Fine Peach Pudding.—Fill pudding-dish with whole peeled peaches, pour over 1 pint water, cover, and bake till peaches are tender. Drain off juice and let cool. Add to it 2 cups milk, 4 beaten eggs, 1 scant cup flour mixed with 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon melted butter, pinch salt. Beat hard 4 minutes, pour over peaches in dish, bake to rich brown and serve with cream.
“Poor Man’s Pudding.”-½ cup suet, chopped, ½ cup seeded raisins, ½ cup currants, washed and picked, 1½ cups grated bread, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, ½ cup brown sugar, 1 pint milk. Mix all well together, put into well-greased mold, set in saucepan with boiling water to reach ½ up sides of mold; steam 2 hours; turn out on dish carefully; serve with butter and sugar.
Plum Pudding (Royal Christmas).—2 cups raisins, 2 cups currants, 2 cups suet, ½ cup almonds, blanched, 2 cups flour, 2 cups grated bread, ½ cup each citron, orange, and lemon peels, 8 eggs, 1 cup sugar, ½ cup cream, 1 gill each wine and brandy, large pinch salt, 1 tablespoon extract nutmeg, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Put in large bowl raisins, seeded, currants, washed and picked, suet, chopped very fine, almonds, cut fine, citron, orange, and lemon peels, chopped, sugar, wine, brandy, and cream; lastly, add flour, sifted with powder; mix all well together, put in large, well-buttered mold ([fig. II]); set in saucepan with boiling water to reach ½ up sides of mold, steam thus 5 hours; turn out on dish carefully; serve with Royal wine sauce.
Plum Pudding, 2.—1½ cups each grated bread, very finely chopped suet, raisins, seeded, currants, washed and picked, and coffee sugar, ½ cup each citron, milk, and orange marmalade, 4 eggs, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon each extract cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Mix all these ingredients well together in large bowl, put in well-buttered mold, set in saucepan with boiling water to reach ½ up its sides; steam thus 3½ hours; turn out carefully on dish, and serve with Royal wine sauce.