Foodie Friday - Beer and Mock Plum Pudding

From a Tyrconnell Heritage Society book called 
12 Days of Christmas

Recipes submitted by Barbara Backus-Zernicke from handwritten cookbooks belonging to her grandmother, Eliza Potticery Backus, a grade school teacher in Tyrconnell and wife of Andrew Storey Backus.

HOME BREWED BEER

Using brown sugar, ginger, hops, molasses, yeast, water, bottled in in bottles with rubber corks securely tied.  Beer will be ready in two days but will keep a year. 

Please note: no quantities were written.

MOCK PLUM PUDDING

1 cup suet

1 cup sweet milk

1 cup raisins

1 cup molasses

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon soda

Steam 4 hours.

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