Herodotus’ Pudding

Instructions

1. Prepare and mix in the usual manner one pound of fine raisins stoned, one pound of minced beef-suet, half a pound of bread-crumbs, four figs chopped small, two tablespoonsful of moist sugar (honey, in the original), two wineglassesful of sherry, and the rind of half a large lemon, grated.
2. Boil the pudding for fourteen hours.
3. Note: This receipt is really to be found in Herodotus. The only variations made in it are the substitution of sugar for honey, and sherry for the wine of ancient Greece. It came from an accomplished scholar, who has had it served at his own table on more than one occasion, and is given on his authority, without testing it; but seven hours would probably boil it quite sufficiently.