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Sponge Pudding

Mix well together a pound of flour, a tea-spoonful of ground ginger, the same of tartaric acid, half a tea-spoonful of ground cloves and nutmeg mixed, a quarter of a pound of clarified dripping, a raw egg, two ounces of brown sugar, and a gill and a half of milk. After this mixture has been well beaten and thoroughly incorporated, add a tea-spoonful of soda dissolved in a table-spoonful of water, and beat it well in. Put the mixture in a greased basin, leaving nearly a third of the room for it to swell, and steam it for two and a half to three hours. Probable cost, 8d.