A Plain Christmas Pudding for Children

Ingredients

• 1 lb flour
• 1 lb bread crumbs
• 3/4 lb stoned raisins
• 3/4 lb currants
• 3/4 lb suet
• 3-4 eggs
• milk
• 2 oz candied peel
• 1 teaspoonful powdered allspice
• 1/2 saltspoonful salt

Instructions

1. Let the suet be finely chopped, the raisins stoned, and the currants well washed, picked, and dried.
2. Mix these with the other dry ingredients, and stir all well together;
3. beat and strain the eggs to the pudding, stir these in, and add just sufficient milk to make it mix properly.
4. Tie it up in a well-floured cloth, put it into boiling water, and boil for at least 5 hours.
5. Serve with a sprig of holly placed in the middle of the pudding, and a little pounded sugar sprinkled over it.