STEAMED CARROT PUDDING

An old Welsh steamed carrot pudding

This is a very old recipe, I gathered it from my grandmother, who would have been 101 (sniff) this year, who learned it from her Welsh mother, who learned it from her ... (in Wales), ergo it's at least 200+. Given its similarity to some late Medieval puddings, one might suspect that its origins are much earlier.

I determined the quantities listed here by measuring what my grandmother tossed into the pot.

Ingredients

Dry

ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted and measured
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 3/4 tsp cloves
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp double-acting baking powder

Other

pudding

• 1 1/2 cups raw, grated, or ground potatoes
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/2 cups raw, ground carrots (use medium blade)
• 1 1/2 cups bread crumbs (dry, not toasted)
• 1 1/2 cups crisco shortening, (solid white vegetable shortening)
• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar (light or dark, depends on what you like)
• 1 jumbo egg, or 2 large eggs, lightly beaten.
• 1 1/2 tsp lemon extract
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups finely chopped walnuts (black walnuts are wonderful if you can get them)
• 15 oz raisins

Sauce

ingredients

• 1/4 cups water
• 1/2 cups brown sugar (I use a mixture of light and dark)
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp lemon extract
• 1/8 tsp cornstarch, well divided
• 1 Tbsp butter

Procedure (pudding)

1. Mix the dry ingredients and set them aside. Grease completely three large (25-oz) tin cans, such as the kind used for tomato puraee. Do NOT use the plastic-lined variety. Alternatively, grease one large steaming mold, with a hole in the center. Or improvise.
2. Add the potatoes. Mix well. Then, in turn, add the baking soda, the carrots, the bread crumbs, and the Crisco, making sure that you mix well after adding each ingredient. This matters, so do it! You may have to get some help from King Kong to blend adequately after adding the shortening.
3. Add, in sequence, the brown sugar, the beaten egg, the lemon extract, and the vanilla, mixing well after each addition.
4. Now, add the dry ingredients mixture, a bit at a time. The mixture will be extremely thick, and very difficult to mix.
5. Add the walnuts and the raisins. Mix them in. Go ahead. You're strong enough.
6. Push the mixture into the tins, with each about 3/4 full, or a little more. Seal the tins with aluminum foil, and use a rubber band to hold the foil on. (the pudding should not be exposed directly to the steam).
7. Steam 1 1/2 to 2 hours, (until the pudding seems uniform. You can't overcook it, so err on the long side, please!) and cool if you're not going to serve it right now.
8. Make the sauce by combining all of the sauce ingredients in a small saucepan and heating until it bubbles and all ingredients are dissolved.
9. To serve, reheat by steaming for at least 45 minutes, or serve out of the original pot.

Notes

Some add rum to this sauce. Suit yourself. I like it both ways.

Decant or spoon out (depends on if you want to be fancy or not) and serve with sauce, also steaming.

Then, don't eat for two days to make up for the calories.

Rating

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Jim Johnston, (ihnp4;allegra;research)!alice!jj 
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 
 
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