Plum Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 pound flour
• 6 eggs
• 1 large spoonful yeast
• milk
• 0.5 pound butter
• 1 nutmeg
• 1.5 pounds raisins

Instructions

1. Sift the flour. Before sunrise, make up the dough with the beaten eggs, yeast, and enough milk to achieve bread consistency. Let it rise well.
2. Knead the butter into the risen dough. Add the grated nutmeg and the raisins (which have been stoned and cut up). Mix all together thoroughly.
3. Wet a cloth and flour it. Transfer the pudding to the cloth and tie it loosely, allowing room for the pudding to rise further. The author notes that raisins in puddings or cakes should be rubbed lightly in flour to prevent them from settling to the bottom, taking care the flour doesn't cling to them in lumps.