A Plain Boiled Pudding. (No. 1.)

3 cupfuls of flour - full ones.

2 cupfuls of "loppered" milk or buttermilk. Sour cream is best of all if you can get it.

1 full teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in hot water.

A little salt.

1/2 cupful powdered suet.

Stir the sour milk gradually into the flour until it is free from lumps. Put in suet and salt; lastly beat in the soda-water thoroughly, but quickly.

Boil an hour and a half, or steam two hours.

Eat at once, hot, with hard sauce.

Plain Boiled Pudding. (No 2.)

1 cup loppered milk or cream. 1/2 cup molasses.

1/2 cup butter, melted.

2 1/2 cups flour.

2 even teaspoonfuls of soda, dissolved in hot water.

A little salt.

Mix molasses and butter together, and beat until very light. Stir in the cream or milk, and salt; make a hole in the flour, and pour in the mixture. Stir down the flour gradually until it is a smooth batter. Beat in the soda-water thoroughly, and boil at once in a buttered mould, leaving room to swell. It should be done in an hour and a half. Eat hot with a good sauce.