Suet Pudding
Arwilda kept three different recipes with this title.
Blanche Kuenn fruit-and-nut pudding with brown-sugar sauce
Old Binder Blanche Kuenn Suet Pudding section
SAUCE:
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar;
- 1 tablespoon each, butter, vinegar, and flour;
- 1 tablespoon vanilla;
- 1 cup boiling water
Directions
- Beat all to-gether and add 1 cup boiling water and let come to a boil.
SUET PUDDING:
From ((Blanche Kuenn).
Ingredients
- 1 heaping cup of bread crumbs;
- 2 cups flour;
- 1 cup molasses, (Brer Rabbit);
- 1 cup raisins;
- 1 package pitted dates, cut up fine;
- 1 package mixed candied fruit;
- 1 cup sweet milk;
- 1 teaspoon soda;
- 1 teaspoon each, salt, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg;
- 3/4 cup nut meats;
Directions
- Mix all the dry ingredients to-gether, then add milk and molasses; put in greased tin cans with tops on and steam 2½ hours. Serve with the following sauce.
Timing: steam 2½ hours
Equipment: greased tin cans with tops on
As written
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One-hour sour-milk pudding served with Sour Sauce
Decorative Tin one-hour Suet Pudding card
Ingredients
- ½ C suet
- 1 C sour milk
- 1 C molasses
- 1 C raisins
- 2 C flour
- 1 t soda.
- ½ t salt, cloves
- ½ t cinnamon
Directions
- Steam 1 hr.
- Eat c̄ Sour Sauce.
Timing: 1 hr.
Temperature: Steam
Equipment: measuring vessels; mixing bowl; mixing utensil; pudding mold or heatproof basin; steamer or covered steaming pot; stove
Notes
- Eat c̄ Sour Sauce.
Three-hour sweet-milk pudding with foamy sauce
Decorative Tin three-hour Suet Pudding card
Ingredients
- 1 C sweet milk.
- 1 C molasses
- 1 C chopped suet
- 3 C flour
- ½ lb. seeded raisins chopped
- 1 tsp salt. soda. cloves. allspice
- cinnamon
- 1 C sugar
- 1 egg
- ⅓ C butter
- ½ C milk
Directions
- steam 3 hrs.
- heat milk & pour over ing. Stir rapidly until foamy (do not boil)
Timing: 3 hrs.
As written
Sauce
Arwilda’s changes
- Added “cinnamon”
Compare the cards
Pudding batter, fruit, and steaming time
- Decorative Tin three-hour Suet Pudding card
- 1 cup each sweet milk, molasses, and chopped suet; 3 cups flour; 1/2 pound chopped seeded raisins; salt, soda, cloves, allspice, and added cinnamon; steam 3 hours.
- Decorative Tin one-hour Suet Pudding card
- 1/2 cup suet; 1 cup each sour milk, molasses, and raisins; 2 cups flour; soda, salt, cloves, and cinnamon; steam 1 hour.
- Old Binder Blanche Kuenn Suet Pudding section
- Bread crumbs, flour, molasses, raisins, dates, mixed candied fruit, sweet milk, soda, four spices, and nut meats; steam in covered greased tin cans 2 1/2 hours.
Served sauce
- Decorative Tin three-hour Suet Pudding card
- Sauce of sugar, egg, butter, and milk, stirred rapidly until foamy without boiling.
- Decorative Tin one-hour Suet Pudding card
- Serve with Sour Sauce; no formula is supplied.
- Old Binder Blanche Kuenn Suet Pudding section
- Brown-sugar sauce with butter, vinegar, flour, vanilla, and boiling water, brought to a boil.
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