Damson Pudding

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861

Source: The Book of Household Management
Yield: 6.0 – 7.0 persons
Status: success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (4)

1-1/2 pint of damsons
1/4 lb. of moist sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
3/4 lb. of suet or butter crust
3/4 lb. of flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]

Instructions (9)

Make a suet crust with 3/4 lb. of flour by recipe No. 1215
Line a buttered pudding-basin with a portion of it
Fill the basin with the damsons
Sweeten them
Put on the lid
Pinch the edges of the crust together, that the juice does not escape
Tie over a floured cloth
Put the pudding into boiling water
Boil from 2-1/2 to 3 hours

Original Text

DAMSON PUDDING.

1271. INGREDIENTS.—1-1/2 pint of damsons, 1/4 lb. of moist sugar, 3/4 lb. of suet or butter crust.

Mode.—Make a suet crust with 3/4 lb. of flour by recipe No. 1215; line a buttered pudding-basin with a portion of it; fill the basin with the damsons, sweeten them, and put on the lid; pinch the edges of the crust together, that the juice does not escape; tie over a floured cloth, put the pudding into boiling water, and boil from 2-1/2 to 3 hours.

Time.—2-1/2 to 3 hours.

Average cost, 8d.

Sufficient for 6 or 7 persons.

Seasonable in September and October.

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