Alma Pudding

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb fresh butter
• 1/2 lb powdered sugar
• 1/2 lb flour
• 1/4 lb currants
• 4 eggs

Instructions

1. Beat the butter to a thick cream, strew in, by degrees, the sugar, and mix both these well together;
2. then dredge the flour in gradually, add the currants, and moisten with the eggs, which should be well beaten.
3. When all the ingredients are well stirred and mixed, butter a mould that will hold the mixture exactly, tie it down with a cloth, put the pudding into boiling water, and boil for 5 hours;
4. when turned out, strew some powdered sugar over it, and serve.