Our Grandma Adelaides Old Fashioned Plum Pudding Food

GRANDMA JONES' DEEP PLUM PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F (175C). Coat 8 cup baking dish with non-stick spray, or coat inside with melted butter.
• Add dry ingredients directly into the prepared baking dish and whisk to combine. Add butter and milk to dry mix and mix well, smooth in the bottom of the dish, and reserve.
• In a small pot heat canned plums to boiling and pour immediately over pudding batter. DO NOT MIX. Bake at 350F for 30 - 35 minutes. Remove from oven, cool slightly and serve, warm.

PLUM PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a 2 quart baking dish, stir together plums, 1 cup sugar, water, tapioca and cinnamon. Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes. (You can also cook the plum mixture in the microwave for 15 minutes.)
• Raise oven temperature to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, stir together baking mix, 3 tablespoons sugar, milk and melted margarine to form a biscuit dough. Drop dough by spoonfuls onto plum mixture. Bake in preheated oven 10 minutes, until golden brown. Let cool slightly before serving.

GRANNY'S PLUM PUDDING

Steps:

• Soak the Candied orange and lemon rinds, sultanas, raisins, currants and apples in the rum and the Guiness overnight.Do not drain.
• In a large bowl, mix the breadcrumbs,suet,.
• flour, ginger, apple pie spice,sugar, slivered almonds and the rinds of the lemon and orange.
• Add the orange and lemon juice, the beaten eggs and the soaked fruit with the soaking liquor. Mix well with a wooden spoon.
• Pour into white earthenware pudding basins and press down into the bowls.
• Cover with greaseproof paper and cover tightly with foil, wrapping cooking string tightly around the rim of the bowls.
• To cook, immerse the bowl into a large saucepan of simmering water for 4 hours. Make sure the water only comes 3/4 up the side of the bowl and cover the saucepan tightly.
• IMPORTANT: Do not let the saucepan boil dry; keep topping with water when needed. And keep the water at a low simmer, you dont want the water to cover the top of the pudding.
• To serve remove bowls from the water, let cool slightly and remove foil and greaseproof paper . run a thin knife around the edge of the pudding and invert onto a serving platter.

OUR GRANDMA ADELAIDE'S OLD-FASHIONED PLUM PUDDING

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Put in well-greased plum pudding pan or mold and steam for 5-6 hours. Sauce: Mix sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Add boiling water. Then slowly add butter to mixture. Stir well. Add rum; serve hot over plum pudding. Fun Fact: Gold mining in Nevada is a major industry, and one of the largest sources of gold in the world. Nevada currently produces 80% of all the gold mined in the United States. Although Nevada was known much more for silver in the 1800s, many of the early silver-mining districts also produced considerable quantities of gold.