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Plum Pudding, Baked

Shred finely half a pound of beef suet, mix with it a salt-spoonful of salt, a pound of flour, a heaped tea-spoonful of baking-powder, half a pound of picked and dried currants, half a pound of stoned raisins, one ounce of candied peel cut into thin strips, two table-spoonfuls of sugar, and a little grated nutmeg. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly. Moisten them with an egg beaten up with as much milk as will make a thick batter. Pour this into a buttered dish, and bake in a well-heated oven. Turn the pudding out before serving, and strew powdered sugar thickly over it before sending it table. For a plain pudding, the egg and half the fruit may be omitted. Time to bake, from an hour and a half to two hours. Probable cost, 1s. 4d. Sufficient for five or six persons.