read, and cut it in thin slices. Put into a pudding
shape a layer of any sort of preserve, then a slice of bread, and
repeat until the mould is almost full. Pour over all a pint of warm
milk, in which four beaten eggs have been mixed; cover the mould with
a piece of linen, place it in a saucepan with a little boiling water,
let it boil twenty minutes, and serve with pudding sauce.

1275. Economical Family Pudding.

Bruise with a wooden spoon, through a cullender, six large or twelve
middle-sized boiled potatoes; beat four eggs, mix with a pint of good
milk, stir in the potatoes; sugar and seasoning to taste; butter the
dish; bake half an hour. A little Scotch marmalade makes a delicious
accompaniment.

1276. Batter Pudding.

Take of flour, four ounces; a teaspoonful of baking powder; a little
sugar, and one egg. Mix with milk to a thin batter, and bake in a
well-buttered tin, in a brisk oven, half an hour. A few currants may
be strewed in the bottom of the tin if preferred.

1277. Batter Pudding, Baked or Boiled.

Six ounces of fine flour, a little salt, and three eggs; beat well
with a little milk, added by degrees until it is the thickness of
cream; put into a buttered dish: bake three-quarters of an hour: or if
boiled put it into a buttered and floured basin, tied over with a
cloth; boil one hour and a half or more.

[FALSEHOOD, LIKE A NETTLE, STINGS THOSE WHO MEDDLE WITH IT.]

1278. Half-Pay Pudding.

Four ounces of each of the following ingredients, viz., suet, flour,
currants, raisins, and bread-crumbs; two tablespoonfuls of treacle,
half a pint of milk--all of which must be well mixed together, and
boiled in a mould, for four hours.

1279. Fig Pudding.

Three-quarters of a pound of grated bread, half a pound of best figs,
six ounces of suet, six ounces of moist sugar, a teacupful of milk,
and a little nutmeg. The figs and suet must be chopped very fine. Mix
the bread and suet first, then the figs, sugar, and nutmegs, one egg
beaten well, and lastly the milk. Boil in a mould four hours. To be
eaten with sweet sauce.

1280. Plain Suet Pudding.

Take of flour, one pound and a half; bicarbonate of soda, three
drachms; or two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; beef suet, four ounces;
powdered ginger, half a drachm; water or milk, one pint. Mix according
to the directions given for the tea cake (_par_. 2099) and boil