Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — English plum Puddings. [ARTICLE]

English plum Puddings.

I’ve mado so-called English plum puddings all my life, but until I ate of them on their native heath I didn’t know tho delicacy. These are made and parboiled fully three months before, and are hung up in bags till needed. By this method the rich ingredients become thoroughly amalgamated, and the flavor is vastly improved. The final cooking occurs the day of use, and the pudding comes to the table piping hot, studded with blanched almonds, and blazing with burning cognac. A dozen to fifteen puddings comfortably carries a family through till Twelfth Night. —New York Times. It is asserted that among the gumchewing Vassar girls no young man can be popular who is not “spruce. ”—Burlington Free Press.