Prune Pudding

PUBLISHED IN Sunday Times 16 July 1911

Ingredients

3/4 lb. flour

5oz. finely chopped suet,

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1/2 lb. dates or stewing prunes

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

about ½ pint of milk.

Instructions

Remove the stones from the dates, and cut into pieces. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together, add other ingredients, mix into a dough with the milk, and boil for two hours in a scalded and floured cloth. Do not tie too tight, room must be left for the pudding to swell.

Submitted by Miss Hannah Buswell, “Taunton”, White Road, Bunbury

Hannah Buswell married John P. Affleck in 1920 and they eventually moved to Inglewood (reference).