Christmas Pudding
- 1 cup finely chopped suet
- 1 cup seeded raisins
- 1 egg
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup Zante Currants
- 1 cup molasses
- 1 even teaspoon salt
- 1 even teaspoon soda
- Cinnamon and allspice to season
Prepare the day before the pudding is cooked. Wash the currants and pick over carefully; then place them wet into a cooking bowl to stand over night, and all the other ingredients excepting the flour and soda; beat well. The next morning add the flour and soda, and beat, andcombine and stir again; put in the pudding basin or mold, and steam 4 hours. The water must boil in the steamer kettle, and be kept boiling until the pudding is taken up. Hot water from the tea kettle can be added as needed.
Submitted by Nov 28, 2009
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