Grandma Busby's Plum Pudding

1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
4 cup flour
1 teaspoon allspice
1 pound raisins
1 cup nuts
1 cup fruit mix
Milk to mix
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 pound suet (this is beef fat but Grandma Clifford used shortening or margarine, about 2/3 cup)

Mix sugar and eggs and shortening. Sift flour, baking powder, spices and salt into sugar and eggs. Stir in raisins, nuts and fruit mix. Add enough milk to make stiff batter. Pour into large clean cloth, pull ends together and tie at top. Put into kettle of boiling water. Boil 2 hours. Serve with sauce.

Sauce

1 quart milk
1 Tablespoons flour or cornstarch;
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
1 cup sugar
Pinch of Salt.

Heat milk, mix sugar and flour together. Stir into boiling milk. Thicken it. Add salt and vanilla. If lumpy strain through strainer.