Baked Plum-Pudding

Ingredients

• 2 lb flour
• 1 lb currants
• 1 lb raisins
• 1 lb suet
• 2 eggs
• 1 pint milk
• a few slices of candied peel

Instructions

1. Chop the suet finely;
2. mix with it the flour, currants, stoned raisins, and candied peel; moisten with the well-beaten eggs, and add sufficient milk to make the pudding of the consistency of very thick batter.
3. Put it into a buttered dish, and bake in a good oven from 2-1/4 to 2-1/2 hours;
4. turn it out, strew sifted sugar over, and serve.
5. For a very plain pudding, use only half the quantity of fruit, omit the eggs, and substitute milk or water for them.
6. The above ingredients make a large family pudding; for a small one, half the quantity would be found ample; but it must be baked quite 1-1/2 hour.