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Globe, Volume II, Issue 102, 28 September 1874, Page 4

Of all the novel industries yet heard of in Victoria, the following is perhaps the newest : “ We have received from the manager of the Colac Meat-preserving Works (says the Hamilton Spectator) a sample tin of plum pudding, requiring only twenty minutes’ immersion in boiling water to render it fit for the table. Such little luxuries will no doubt be appreciated in the bush, where people would rather go puddingless than commit themselves to the serious undertaking of preparing the time-honored dainty. If meat, becomes too dear for the process of tinning, there should still be a vast field open to the colonial preserving factory. Rabbits and kangaroos should be plentiful enough, and hares will be numerous by-and-by. The jams, pickles, sauces, bottled fruits, and most of the other articles forming the stock-in-trade of a grocery store, should all be manufactured in the colony ; and there is no occasion to send to the other side of the globe for them. But ready-made puddings are even a step beyond these ; and we must, do the manager the justice to say that (he only fault found by our household with his sample package was, that there was not enough of it,”