A PLUM PUDDING SONG.

Southern Cross, Volume 8, Issue 35, 22 December 1900, Page 10

A PLUM PUDDING SONG.

There are dozens of recipes for plum pudding, and many of them are excellent. Tlie one below, being metrical, is easily remembered, and its origin makes it interesting. It was found in Leigh Hunt’s journal. If a cook is musically inclined she will find that she can sing the words to the old air of ‘ Jeannette and Jeanot,’ as she puts the ingredients together. An improvement, on the recipe is the substitution of fib of bread crumbs for half of the pound of flour, bat strict adherence to the rhyme will also bring admirable results :

' \> If you wish to make the pudding in which everyone delights, Of six pretty new-laid eggs you must take the , yolks and whites; Beat them well up in a basin till they thoroughly combine, And be sure you chop the suet up particularly fine. Take a pound of well stoned raisins and a ■ pound of currants, dried, A pound of powdered sugar, and some candied peel besides ; Beat them all up well together with a pound of wheaten flour, And let them stand to settle for a quarter of an hour; Then tie the mixture in a cloth and put it in a pot. Some persons like the water cold and some prefer it hot, But though I don’t know which of these two plans I ought to praise, I know it ought to boil an hour for every pound it weighs; And if I were the Queen of Trance or e’en the Pope of Borne, I’d have a Christmas nuddiog every day I dined at home !