Plum Pudding, Fruitcake Recipes, Rosalind Redfearn, Dec. 14, 1922

Recipes from the Woman’s Corner by Mrs. Rosalind A. Redfearn

Christmas Cakes and Puddings

Date Pudding

¾ C sugar

2 eggs

½ C flour

1 t. baking powder

Pinch of salt

1 C dates, seeded and chopped or put through meat chopper

1 C nutmeats, chopped

Mix sugar and eggs, mix fruit, nuts and dry ingredients, then add to first mixture. Mix and turn into an oiled baking dish. Bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. Serve with whipped cream or hard sauce.

Hard Sauce

1/3 C butter

1 C powdered sugar

1/3 t. lemon extract

2/3 t. vanilla

Cream butter, add sugar gradually and flavoring.

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Plum Pudding

1 lb. fat

1 lb. chopped raisins

1 lb. currants

½ lb. cut citron

¼ lb. lemon peel

¼ lb. orange peel

10 eggs

½ C. fruit juice

¼ lb. shaved almonds

2 t. salt

1 lb. brown sugar

1 ¼ C. bread flour

2 t. cinnamon

½ t. nutmeg

1 ½ t. soda

1 ½ t. mace

Chop and cut fruits and soda fine. Combine wet ingredients, add dry ingredients. Steam in covered greased molds 6 hours. This makes four one-pound coffee cans almost full.

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Hermits

1/3 C. butter

2/3 C. sugar

1 egg

2 T. milk

1 ¾ C. flour

2 t. baking powder

1/3 C. raisins, chopped

½ t. cinnamon

¼ t. mace

¼ t. nutmeg

Cream butter, add sugar gradually, then raisins, egg well beaten and milk. Mix and sift dry ingredients and add to first mixture. Roll and cut or drop by small spoonfuls and bake in a moderate oven.

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Fruit Cake

1 lb. butter

1 lb. flour

1 lb. brown sugar

1 lb. citron

2 lb. raisins

2 lb. currants

1 lb. almonds

12 eggs

2 t. cinnamon

2 t. mace

2 t. nutmeg

2 t. allspice

½ t. cloves

2 t. salt

½ C. liquid (milk, water or fruit juice)

Cream butter, shave and chop heated citron, chop raisins, blanch and cut almonds, separate and beat eggs, mix the creamed butter, sugar, egg yolks, spices, fruits and nuts, flour and liquid. Fold in beaten egg whites and bake in a moderate oven 2 hours.

Hard Sauce is called that because it usually contains a liquor, typically rum or brandy. This recipe for Hard Sauce isn't hard at all, because Prohibition was in effect 100 years ago.

Abbreviations: t. means teaspoon; T. means tablespoon; C. means cup, lb. means pound. From page 5 of The Messenger and Intelligencer, Wadesboro, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 14, 1922