INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

*Plus additional flour for dusting fruits and adding to batter if needed.
Grease and flour six 1-pound coffee cans or pudding molds.
Sift the 4 1/2 cups flour with next 7 dry ingredients into a large bowl. In
a separate bowl, dust the raisins, currants, apples and nuts with 2
tablespoons additional flour.
Mix together the suet, brown sugar, eggs and buttermilk.  Add the suet
mixture gradually to the sifted dry ingredients, mixing well.  Add fruits
and bread crumbs; mix until well-blended.  (If batter is not stiff, stir in
additional flour as needed.)
Divide mixture among prepared cans or molds, filling them half full. Cover
each with a double sheet of waxed paper and tie down securely.
Pressure cooker: Place hot water in the bottom of a large pressure
cooker/canner, using enough to reach a level just below the bottom of a
steaming rack.  Place cans or molds on the rack.  Cover the pressure canner
and steam the puddings 20 minutes with the vent tube (or petcock) open.
Then attach the automatic pressure control or close the petcock and cook
for 50 minutes at 10 lbs. pressure. Remove the pressure cooker from heat.
When pressure is completely reduced, open and remove the puddings from the
cooker.
Regular steamer: In a large stockpot or boiling water bath canner, add
water to come up just below the bottom of the steaming rack.  Add puddings,
cover and steam for 6 hours, adding water as necessary to keep from boiling
dry.  It helps if the lid is tightfitting; if not, try putting a weight on
the lid to keep it down, or cover the pot rim with a strip of aluminum foil
to help the lid fit more tightly.
To serve, slice and resteam in the top of a double boiler over simmering
water until hot, about 1 hour.  Serve with hard sauce and whipped cream
flavored with brandy or the Wilson family's favorite sauce (see recipe).
This pudding will keep for months in the refrigerator or may be frozen up
to one year.
Eulalie Jeter's grandmother's recipe in Special Writer Marilyn Kluger's
11/25/92 "A Dickens of a Delight: Christmas Plum Pudding is a Holiday Treat
Straight from Merry Olde England" article in "The (Louisville, KY)
Courier-Journal."  Pg. C7.  Typed for you by Cathy Harned.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #253 by "Deborah Kühnen"
<DEBKUHNEN@classic.msn.com> on Sep 23, 97

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