CHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDING.
- 34 lb. flour (or 112 breakfastcups)
- 2 heaped teaspoonfuls Edmonds' Baking Powder
- 2 ozs. stale bread crumbs
- 122 lb. suet
- 2 lbs. raisins
- 1 lb. currants
- 6 eggs
- 10 ozs. sugar (brown)
- 14 lb. almonds
- 12 lb. mixed candied peel
- Salt and spice to taste
Mix ingredients well together, and add 6 eggs well beaten, and three-quarters of a pint of milk; divide into two, and boil 8 hours, or four, and boil 6 hours.
DOUGHNUTS.
- 312 breakfastcups flour
- 1 breakfastcup sugar
- 12 breakfastcup butter
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 3 teaspoonfuls Edmonds' Baking Powder
- 12 teaspoonful salt
Beat sugar and eggs together in a separate basin, rub butter into flour, add salt and baking powder, mix well, then mix flour with the eggs and sugar, roll out, cut into rounds, and fry in hot lard; serve hot.
"LOVE IN A "
"Do you love me?" said the cup to the custard.
"I'm just brimming up in you," replied the custard.
"You sweet thing," answered the cup.
"Delightful."
A Golden Rule.—Hold fast to that which is good.
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