Mrs Beeton's Traditional
Christmas Recipes - 4 Christmas Puddings
Mrs Beeton's Christmas Pudding Recipes
Following on from the theme of Mrs Beeton,
here are two of her Xmas Plum Pudding recipes from the 1923 edition of her famous
book. This
edition features 5 Christmas puddings, and four Christmas plum pudding recipes are
listed
here, including one without suet for fruitarians as opposed to true
vegetarians. The full colour plate of
puddings from the 1890s version is
here. I
usually make my plum pudding on stir-up Sunday at the end of November and I
always add glace cherries and chopped dates too. But these puddings
taste just as good freshly made the week before Xmas.
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Recipe 1 (Page 494)
- 1923 Edition
Makes 2 Christmas puddings
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Ingredients |
Basic Method
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Check recipe for shopping/store cupboard
purposes and grease 2 basins. 8 oz
moist sugar (use soft brown ) 8 oz
chopped suet or modern day equivalent 8 oz
sultanas cleaned 8 oz
raisins halved and stoned 4 oz
currants washed and dried 4 oz
shredded mixed candied peel - Cut your own or use ready cut 4 oz of plain flour 4 oz
breadcrumbs 2 oz
almonds blanched and shredded the
grated rind of a 1 lemon 3
eggs
a salt spoonful of nutmeg grated
half a teaspoon of salt
quarter pint of milk
1 small wineglassful of brandy
(optional)
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Mix all the dry ingredients together, stir in the well beaten eggs,
milk and brandy (if used). Turn the
mixture into 2 well greased basins, and steam from 5 to 6 hours. Time 5 to 6 hours.
Sufficient for 8 or 9 persons.
N.B.
Please note that no raising agent is mentioned in this recipe, but the
flour must be plain flour, as elsewhere self raising
flour is mentioned by type when used. |
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The Christmas pudding recipe above sounds very good to me.
So good, I shall be making one when I finish this page! Reading
through the recipes, one becomes aware they are each different. The
Christmas Plum Pudding Recipe 2 below sounds more economical and I notice is
also nut free, which makes it perfect for those with nut allergies.
Recipe 1 also makes two puddings. The book also has recipe 3 a rich
pudding ( high fat content), recipe 4 an inexpensive pudding (more flour)
and recipe 5 Fruitarian Xmas Pudding with a wider range of fruit and nuts
and without suet. But you can today buy vegetarian suet substitute for
all the other recipes today.
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Recipe 2 (Page 494)
- 1923 Edition - Subtitled (Another Method)
Makes 1 pudding
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Ingredients |
Basic Method
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Check recipe for shopping/store cupboard
purposes and grease 1 basin. 5 oz
breadcrumbs 4 oz of plain flour 4 oz
chopped suet or modern day equivalent 4 oz
currants
4 oz raisins
4 oz soft brown moist sugar
2 oz candied peel - Cut your own or use ready cut
2 oz raw grated carrot
1 teaspoon grated rind of lemon
half salt spoon nutmeg grated
1 good teaspoonful baking powder
about quarter pint of milk
2 eggs
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Mix all the dry ingredients together except the baking
powder. Add the beaten eggs and sufficient
milk to moisten the whole, then cover, and let the mixture stand
for about an hour. When ready stir in the baking powder, turn into a
greased mould or basin, and boil for 6 hours or steam the plum pudding for about 7
hours. Serve with a suitable sauce. Time 6 to 7 hours.
Sufficient for 9 persons. |
Here is the third Mrs Beeton Xmas Pudding recipe, described as rich.
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Recipe 3 (Page 494/5)
- 1923 Edition - Subtitled (Rich)
Makes 1 pudding for 8 or 9 persons
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Ingredients |
Basic Method
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Check recipe for shopping/store cupboard
purposes and grease 1 basin. 8 oz
chopped suet or modern day equivalent 8 oz
breadcrumbs 2 oz
of plain flour
8 oz raisins 8 oz
sultanas
4 oz
currants
4 oz candied peel - Cut your own or use ready cut
half a grated nutmeg
half an ounce of mixed spice
half an ounce of ground cinnamon
1 gill of milk (about a quarter pint of milk)
1 wineglassful of rum or brandy (optional)
2 oz desiccated coconut or
shredded almonds
1 lemon
4 eggs pinch of salt
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Exact method from the book.
Skin the suet or chop it finely. Clean the fruit, stone the
raisins, finely shred the mixed peel; peel and chop the lemon rind. Put all the dry ingredients in a basin and mix well
Add the milk, stir in the eggs one at a time, add the rum or brandy
and the strained juice of a lemon. Work the whole thoroughly for some minutes, so that
the ingredients are all well blended. Put the mixture in a well greased or floured pudding
cloth. Boil the plum pudding for 4 hours or steam for at least 5 hours. Sufficient for
8 or 9 persons.
N.B
This recipe has no baking powder or sugar mentioned. 1 gill is a quarter
pint or 5 fl oz or 150ml.
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I have omitted Mrs Beeton Recipe 4, so that is why the next recipe is number 5.
Here is the Mrs Beeton Fruitarian recipe.
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Recipe 5 (Page 495)
- 1923 Edition - Subtitled (Without Suet Fruitarian Pudding)
Sufficient for 2 medium sized puddings
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Ingredients |
Basic Method
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Check recipe for shopping/store cupboard
purposes and grease 2 basins ready. 8 oz
figs 8 oz
breadcrumbs
8 oz stoned raisins 4 oz
sultanas
4 oz
currants
4 oz candied peel - Cut your own or use ready cut 8 oz
peeled sweet almonds (blanched) 4oz
pine kernels 4 oz
shelled brazil nuts 4 oz
butter
The grated rind of
1 lemon and the juice of 2 lemons
3 eggs
1 teaspoonful of whole spice
pinch of salt 4 oz
of moist brown sugar 2
apples 4oz
honey |
Exact method
from the book. Mince the
figs. Peel, core
and chop the apples. Chop the
almonds, pine kernels, and nuts. Clean the
fruit, and chop or shred the candied peel.
Put all the
dry ingredients in a basin and add the honey and lemon juice.
Beat up the
eggs, and stir in with the above. When thoroughly mixed fill
into one or two greased moulds, tie over with a greased cloth and
boil the plum pudding for about 3 hours.
When done
un-mould and serve the Christmas pudding with a suitable sauce or custard.
Time about 4
hours. Sufficient for 2 medium sized puddings.
N.B
This recipe has no flour. With its figs this must be a figgy
pudding too.
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Here is a lovely 1890's Mrs. Beeton's coloured food plate of Puddings.
Picture enlarges.
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