Description
This is an old recipe and it's not light. It is however the perfect thing if you you want a true old fashioned finish to your thanksgiving or christmas meal.
Ingredients
- Cranberries
- All-purpose Flour
- Salt
- Baking Soda
- Boiling Water
- Molasses
- White Sugar
- Butter
- Heavy Whipping Cream
- Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Lightly grease a 2 quart metal container or a clean 1 pound coffee can
- Pick over whole cranberries, wash and drain
- Sift together the flour and salt
- Dredge cranberries in flour mixture
- Dissolve soda into boiling water and add molasses
- Stir and allow to foam up
- Add to the flour and cranberry mixture
- Mix together until well blended
- Spoon into a greased metal container
- Cover with a double layer of tinfoil and fasten with heavy elastic band or string
- Place into a deep saucepan and fill with water up to about the half way mark on the pudding can
- Cover pan and place over high heat
- Bring water to boil, reduce heat and simmer for one hour
- Remove from water and allow to cool
- When ready to serve, invert pan or open bottom of can and push through
- Slice in 1 / 2 inch pieces
- Prepare the sauce by mixing together the sugar, butter and cream
- Cook over medium heat until thick, stirring constantly
- Add vanilla and pour over individual slices of pudding