Posted on 12/01/2020 4:14:05 PM PST by Jamestown1630
There used to be Crosse and Blackwell plum puddings in our grocery store. When that long-time family business was taken over by an international corporation, we never saw them again - as well as a lot of other interesting seasonal things.
I loved that plum pudding and hard sauce. Even though it was canned, it was great.
The plum pudding must have been popular.
An old dented.....empty ....Crosse and Blackwell plum pudding can is priced at $58 on ebay.
Is that a plum pudding?
Not sure I’d want to buy one from Ebay ;-)
I’m looking around for a small-scale recipe to try. I’ll post when I do.
Not a pudding——a used dented empty can.
They must still make it - I can still find some Crosse and Blackwell items in the store, or at least I could up to last Christmas. I’ll have to look around.
I found this simplified recipe from the Townsends:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4o1wYwkv9g
(I used to be able to get suet from the supermarket grocery; but it’s been ages since they’ve done their own butchering. I think you can get it mail-order in some packaged/preserved form.)
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