AN EXCELLENT PLUM-PUDDING, made without Eggs

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb flour
• 6 oz raisins
• 6 oz currants
• 1/4 lb chopped suet
• 1/4 lb brown sugar
• 1/4 lb mashed carrot
• 1/4 lb mashed potatoes
• 1 tablespoonful treacle
• 1 oz candied lemon-peel
• 1 oz candied citron

Instructions

1. Mix the flour, currants, suet, and sugar well together; have ready the above proportions of mashed carrot and potato, which stir into the other ingredients;
2. add the treacle and lemon-peel; but put no liquid in the mixture, or it will be spoiled.
3. Tie it loosely in a cloth, or, if put in a basin, do not quite fill it, as the pudding should have room to swell, and boil it for 4 hours.
4. Serve with brandy-sauce.
5. This pudding is better for being mixed over-night.