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Boiled Lemon Pudding. English

A lemon suet pudding, pale yellow, rich. 1 pound of flour. 1 pound of suet chopped fine. 1 pound of white bread crumbs. 1/2 pound of white sugar. 4 lemons. 4 eggs. 2 pints of milk. 1 teaspoonful of salt. 1 level teaspoonful of soda.

Make the bread crumbs fine either by grating or cutting in thinnest slices and squares across. Mix all the dry articles together except soda and salt, which dissolve in the milk. Grate the lemon rindsin. Mix up with the milk and eggs. Squeeze in the lemon juice at last. Tie up in 2 pudding cloths, wetted and floured, and boil 3 hours. Hard sauce cream sauce, golden sauce or wine. The missing link in this evolution of puddings from duff to English plum is Eve's pudding, which can be found easily some distance back, and thence back to the place of beginning at plum pudding corner.

Now if it were right and proper or even allowable to base an hypothesis upon pudding, we should say that the great mistake of Bulwer's life was in wishing that his countrymen were Frenchmen and in keeping them constantly reminded of his wish; and the great mistake of Dickens' life was in sneering at Americans for not being English. Dickens was forgiven because of his world-wide Anglo-Saxonism; Bulwer retains his hold only by sheer strength; through the polish and exact fit of his work, not through love or indulgence. Dickens was English even to the chops and tomato sauce of Pickwick and all the little bread and cheese and kisses repasts of his people. Bulwer sneered at the national Yorkshire pudding, and blackberry pudding, and boiled veal, and he is not popular. Hotel keepers are mindful of the dread warning. When all nations and peoples shall have come to think alike and eat alike, then the dreams of the universal peace society will be realized and there will be an universal language. In the meantime English inn keepers go on providing roast beef with Yorkshire pudding; pease pudding; boiled apple dumplings and tea and toast; and American hotel keepers doing business for profit keep up the supply of ham and eggs, oyster soup, turkey with cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and mince pie, and coffee and Parker House rolls. All easy enough, and no need of stroking the fur the wrong way.