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Susan Gilbert's late nineteenth century British cookery manuscript

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Baked Bread Pudding Weigh your pieces of bread the day before you intend to make your pudding, put 2 lbs of thin Bread to soak in a pan of cold water little more than sufficient to cover it, put a plate on the top to keep the Bread under water and let it soak 24 hours, then you make the pudding, pour the Bread and water into a Culander, get it as dry as you can, then add to it, rather more than 1 teaspoonful of Flour, 1/2 lb moist sugar, the peel of 1 lemon grated, 4 oz of Currants, a desert spoonful of mixed spice, 4 oz of suet chopped fine, 6 eggs, mix the whole up together. Duke of Buckingham Pudding 1 lb of Raisins, 3/4 lb of suet, 3 Table-spoonsfull of Flour, 3 Table spoonsful of moist sugar, 1 nutmeg, 4 eggs leaving out 1 white, boil it 4 hours.
 
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