Boiled Indian-meal Pudding Recipe

Instructions

1. Put together in a mixing-bowl 1 cup each of beef suet (chopped fine), molasses, milk, seeded raisins, and sift into the mixture 1 cup flour, 2 cups corn meal, and a level teaspoon of soda sifted in with the flour and meal.
2. Mix batter thoroughly.
3. Dip a cloth bag in hot water, dust the inside with flour, and pour the batter into the bag, allowing room for the pudding to swell.
4. Plunge pudding into a deep kettleful of boiling water; cover for three hours, refilling with boiling water as the water boils away from the pudding.
5. When done, remove and plunge into cold water; take out immediately and drain.
6. Cut open bag and place pudding on hot dish, and serve with raisin sauce.