This section is from the book "Mrs. Fryer's Loose-Leaf Cook Book", by Jane Eayre Fryer. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Fryer's Loose-Leaf Cook Book.
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup sweet milk
2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup seeded raisins
Cream the butter and sugar; add the well-beaten eggs. Sift together the flour and baking powder; add alternately with the milk. Then add the raisins, finely chopped. Put into small greased cups and steam one half hour. Serve with lemon or vanilla sauce.
1/2 pound raisins 1/2 pound chopped suet 3 cups bread crumbs 1/2 cup brown sugar Grated rind of 1/2 lemon
1/4 orange peel, minced 1/2 cup flour 1/2 pound currants 1/4 nutmeg, grated 2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly. Beat the eggs; add them to the milk and pour over the dry mixture. Mix thoroughly; pack in greased tins, leaving space of one inch at the top of each. Tie on the lids and boil for ten hours. Keep in a cool place until needed. Serve with hard sauce.
i pint milk Bread crumbs 2 eggs
1 cup currants 1 cup raisins
1/2 nutmeg, grated 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon cloves 1 tablespoon butter 1/4 teaspoon salt
Thicken the milk with the bread crumbs; add the beaten egg and other ingredients and bake for two hours. Serve with lemon or vanilla sauce.
1/2 pound grated brown bread
1/2 pound currants
1/2 pound chopped suet
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
2 eggs
1 tablespoon cream
Mix the ingredients thoroughly and boil them in a buttered pudding mold or cloth for three hours. Serve with lemon sauce.
Hollow out little stale sponge cakes; brush with butter inside and out; place in each cavity two halves of peaches, pared and fitted together with a little orange marmalade or other preserve in the center. Sprinkle with sugar and chopped nuts; bake until the peaches are tender and serve with vanilla or fruit sauce.
1 cup dry bread crumbs
1 pint boiling milk
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 cups canned peaches
Soak the crumbs in the milk; add the butter, sugar, beaten eggs and mashed peaches. Pour into a buttered mold or tin can; cover closely and boil for two hours. Serve with lemon sauce.
1/2 cup chopped suet 1/2 cup seeded raisins 1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup milk
3/4 teaspoon soda
Mix the ingredients thoroughly, adding the soda dissolved in the milk last. Pour into a buttered mold or can; cover closely and boil three hours. Serve with hard or foamy sauce.
2 cups stale bread crumbs 1/2 cup chopped suet 1/2 cup molasses
1 egg
1 cup raisins
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Pinch of salt
1 cup milk
3/4 teaspoon soda
Mix the ingredients thoroughly, adding the soda dissolved in the milk last. Cover closely in a buttered mold or tin can and boil for two hours. Serve with hard or foamy sauce.
 
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