{"id":1342,"date":"2011-12-09T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:53:02","slug":"a-plain-christmas-pudding-for-children-from-mrs-beeton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/a-plain-christmas-pudding-for-children-from-mrs-beeton","title":{"rendered":"A Plain Christmas Pudding For Children From Mrs Beeton"},"content":{"rendered":"

(From my gran’s 1894 publication of ‘Mrs Beeton’s Cookery Book and Household Guide’ – see this post<\/a><\/strong> for more information.)<\/em><\/p>\n

A PLAIN CHRISTMAS PUDDING FOR CHILDREN.<\/strong>
\nINGREDIENTS.- 1 lb. flour, 1 lb. breadcrumbs, \u00be lb. stoned raisins, \u00be lb. currants, \u00be lb. suet, 3 or 4 eggs, milk, 2 oz. candied peel, 1 teaspoonful powdered allspice, \u00bd saltspoonful salt.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mode<\/em>.- Let the suet be finely chopped, the raisins stoned, and the currants well washed, picked, and dried. Mix these with the other dry ingredients, and stir well together ; beat and strain the eggs to the pudding, stir these in, and add just sufficient milk to make it mix properly. Tie it up in a well-floured cloth, put it into boiling water, and boil for at least 5 hours. Serve with a sprig of holly placed in the middle of the pudding, and a little pounded sugar sprinkled over it.<\/p>\n

Time, 5 hours. Average cost,<\/em> 1s. 9d. Sufficient<\/em> for 9 or 10 children. Seasonable<\/em> at Christmas.<\/p>\n

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Plain Christmas Pudding Recipe For Children<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(From my gran’s 1894 publication of ‘Mrs Beeton’s Cookery Book and Household Guide’ – see this post for more information.) A PLAIN CHRISTMAS PUDDING FOR CHILDREN. INGREDIENTS.- 1 lb. flour, 1 lb. breadcrumbs, \u00be lb. stoned raisins, \u00be lb. currants, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mrs-beetons-cookery-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}