St. James Pudding
3 tablespoons butter
1⁄2 cup molasses
1⁄2 cup thick, sour milk
12⁄3 cups flour
3⁄4 teaspoon soda
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
1⁄4 teaspoon cloves
1⁄4 teaspoon allspice
1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
1⁄2 lb. dates, stoned and cut in pieces
Mix the molasses, melted butter, and milk and add them to the dry ingredients, which have been mixed and sifted. Add the dates and turn the dough into a buttered, one-quart mould. Boil it in a large cooker-pail of water for one-half hour and put it into a cooker for five hours. Serve with Hard Sauce.
Serves five or six persons.