Farmer’s Plum Pudding
3 cups of flour.
1 cup of milk.
½ cup powdered suet.
1 cup best molasses, slightly warmed.
1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water.
1 pound raisins, stoned and chopped.
1 teaspoonful mixed cinnamon and mace.
1 saltspoonful ginger.
1 teaspoonful of salt.
Beat suet and molasses to a cream; add the spice, the salt, and two-thirds of the milk; stir in the flour; beat hard; put in the rest of the milk, in which the soda must be stirred. Beat vigorously up from the bottom for a minute or so, and put in the fruit well dredged with flour. Boil in a buttered mould at least three hours.
Eat very hot with butter-and-sugar sauce.