Yield: 12 Servings
Measure | Ingredient |
---|---|
2½ cup | Flour |
1 teaspoon | Soda |
1 teaspoon | Ground cinnamon |
1 teaspoon | Ground cloves |
½ teaspoon | Salt |
1 cup | Ground suet |
1 cup | Firmly packed brown sugar |
1 cup | Buttermilk |
1 cup | Raisins |
1 cup | Chopped nuts -Spicy Butter Sauce--- |
⅔ cup | Sugar |
1½ tablespoon | Cornstarch |
1 cup | Water |
¼ cup | Butter |
½ teaspoon | Nutmeg |
¼ teaspoon | Cinnamon |
1 teaspoon | Vanilla |
Mix flour with soda, spices, suet, salt and sugar. Stir buttermilk into dry ingredients; add raisins and nuts and stir until thoroughly combined. Spoon mixture into 2 greased 1 lb coffee cans or a 2 qt pudding mold; cover with greased aluminum foil. Place on trivet or rack in large kettle or Dutch oven; add enough boiling water to come halfway up[ side of can or mold.
Steam (the water in the kettle should be bubbling), kettle covered, 3 hours or until wooden pick comes out clean. Remove coffee cans or mold from eater. Let stand about 10 mins. With a knife, loosen pudding around edge of can, turn out of cans. Serve warm with the Spicy Butter Sauce.
Spicy Butter Sauce: Combine sugar and cornstarch in small saucepan, stir in water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until thick and bubbly.
Add butter, spices and vanilla; blend well. Serve hot. Makes about 1½ cups.
Tootie Notes: This recipe is about 100 years old. I think it was probably a common dish of my Grandmother's era. This dish keeps in the refrigerator for at least a week and freezes very well. To heat: Put in top of double boiler and heat over boiling water.The sauce is smooth and spicy and serve hot.
Recipe by: Grandmother-Eugenie Odom Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by LVFG53A@... (MRS IRA M DENNIS) on Nov 11, 1997