A Small Plum Pudding

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup breadcrumbs, bread raspings sound like dry bread crumbs
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup butter, originally 1 c beef suet
• 3/4 cup muscatel raisins, golden raisins might be an acceptable substitute
• 7/8 cup currants
• 1/2 cup sultana raisin, the total for the muscatels, currents, and sultanas is 1 1/2 pound, mix and match as desired
• 1 1/2 ounces candied peel, i plan to use 'that stuff they sell in tubs at christmastime to make fruitcakes with.'
• 1/2 lemon, zest of, only, grated
• 1 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons brandy

Recipe

• 1 mix brown sugar, bread crumbs, eggs and soft butter well.
• 2 add remaining ingredients one by one, mixing well after each addition.
• 3 tie up in a clean new buttered and floured pudding cloth or place into buttered pudding mold(s) with cloth tied over top.
• 4 boil (in a cloth) or steam (in molds). original recipe, four times this size, was to boil for four hours. time should be shorter for a smaller amount.
• 5 serve with brandy sauce.