Small and Very Light Plum Pudding

Source: Eliza Acton, 1845

Instructions

  1. Finely grate three ounces of the crumb of a stale loaf and soak it in a quarter of a pint of boiling milk.
  2. Mix with it six ounces of suet minced very small, one ounce of dry bread-crumbs, ten ounces of stoned raisins, a little salt, the grated rind of a china-orange, and three eggs, leaving out one white.
  3. Boil the pudding for two hours.
  4. Serve it with very sweet sauce; put no sugar in it.

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