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Ingredients

Directions

  1. Suet Piiddliig.

  2. One cup full of New Orleans molasses, one cup full of chopped suet, one cup full of cold water, four cups full of flour, one tea- spoon full of ginger, one-half tea-spoon full of allspice, one-half tea-spoon full of cinnamon, one-half tea-spoon full of cloves, one- half of a nutmeg, one cup full of currants, one cup full of raisins, pinch of salt, three tea-spoons full of baking powder. Steam three hours.

  3. Sauce. — One cup full of sugar, three-fourths cup full of butter. Stir to a cream. Add yolk of one egg and one cup full of boiling water. Beat white and put on top. Flavor with lemon or vanilla.

  4. Mrs. Abbott.

  5. Ijemon Pudding.

  6. Two cups of bread crumbs soaked in one quart of milk, yolks of four eggs, one lemon and rind, grated, and the juice, two spoons full of cream or butter. When baked have the whites well beaten with white sugar, and just brown. Eat cold.

  7. Mrs. Frank Jerome.

  8. Suet Pudding. Excellent.

  9. One cup full of chopped suet, one-half cup full of molasses, one cup full of raisins, one cup full of sour milk, one tea-spoon full of soda, four cups full of flour. Steam three hours. To be eaten with hot sauce. This will keep a week or more and is nice steamed over. Miss Armsby.

  10. Suet Pudding.

  11. One egg, one cup full of suet, one cup full of molasses. New Orleans, one cup full of sour milk or coflee, one tea-spoon full of soda, two cups lull of flour, one cup full of raisins, one cup full of currants. Mrs. D. B. Keeler.

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  13. CHARLES WESTLEY,

  14. General Subscripfion Ag't/""i:^r Denver Colo.

  15. BOOKZS SOXjX) Oasr IlTST^«i.L3yEE3SrTS- Fine art publications of Casseli, Petter, Galpin & Co., London and New York; Dante's Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise, illustrated by M. Gustave Dore ; Milton's Paradise Lost ; Dore Bible Gallery; Egypt: Description, Historical and Picturesque, by Prof G. Ebers ; Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare ; The Countries of the World ; The Life of Christ, by Rev. F. W. Farrar, D. D., F. R. S.; The Child's Life of Christ; The Early Days of Christianity; The Harmony of the Bible with Science. Any of the above books taken to your house for examination, at your request by postal card.

  16. Tapioca Piiclding.

  17. Six table-spoons full of tapioca soaked over night in two tea- cups full of cold water. In the morning beat the yolks of three eggs, put them into one quart of milk, add one heaping tea-cup full of sugar, and a little salt, also the tapioca. Boil this mixture like custard. When nearly cold, flavor with vanilla or lemon. Then bake it. After this add a frosting made from the whites of the eggs and one table-spoon full of sugar, and brown it in the oven. Very nice when cold. Mrs. E. V. Wells.

  18. Clieese Pnddiug.

  19. One pint of bread crumbs on the bottom of a pudding dish. Then add a sprinkle of grated cheese, a little butter in small pieces, a little salt and pepper. Alternate until the dish is full. Beat one egg lightly in a cup of sweet milk, pour over and bake fifteen minutes. Mrs. Howard.

  20. L<emoii Pudding.

  21. One pint of bread crumbs soaked in one quart of milk, the yolks of four eggs, beaten light with one tea-cup full of sugar, the rind of one lemon; all mixed and baked in a pan. Take the whites of the eggs, beat them very light with a little sugar, not as stiff as icing, adding the juice of the lemon ; put it on the top of the pudding and put in the stove until it is a light brown.

  22. Mrs. Howard.

  23. Snet Pudding.

  24. One cup full of molasses, one cup full of milk, three cups full of flour, one cup full of suet, chopped, two cups full of raisins and currants mixed, cloves and cinnamon to taste. Boil in pudding bag. Mrs. Frank Jerome

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  27. Lemon Ice.

  28. One pint of rich lemonade with a Httle grated rind of a lemon in it. It must be very sweet as it looses much in freezing. Add the whites of three eggs, cut to a stiff froth. Freeze like ice cream. Mrs. Spining.

  29. Clxarlotte-Riisse.

  30. One pint of cream and whites of six eggs beaten to a stiff froth separately, one-fourth ounce gelatine soaked in a gill of milk set on back of stove to dissolve. Mi.\ cream and eggs, sweeten and flavor, and stir in gelatine when cool. Place on sponge cake and set away to get firm, Mrs. D. B. Keeler.

  31. Chocolate Dessert.

  32. One quart of milk, three bars of sweet chocolate ; place in warm place to melt. One cup full of sugar, one-fourth box full of gelatine, stir all into milk and boil. Let cool and serve with whipped cream. Mrs, Spining.

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  37. Near Corner Lja-^vreuce and Sixteentli Streets,

  38. BASEMENT. DENVER, COLO.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1358Calories
39 gProtein
50 gFat
192 gCarbs

Counts 18 of 20 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 18 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Sour Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Allspice1 tsp ground (1.9g)5
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Puddingnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Denver. Central Presbyterian church. Young ladies' mission band. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Currant + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,180 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  5. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (molasses, flour, raisin, sugar, butter, bread, milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against molasses, flour, raisin, sugar, butter, bread, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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