Name: Demi-plum Pudding
Ingredients: leftover plum pudding, broken into pieces; custard; water for steaming or baking

Demi-plum Pudding

Ingredients

leftover plum pudding, broken into pieces
custard
water for steaming or baking

Directions

Prepare

Prepare a mold.

Assemble and cook

Add the broken pieces of leftover plum pudding to the mold.
Fill the mold with custard until full.
Steam or bake for thirty minutes.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Leftover plum pudding: Provides the main body, texture and flavour of the dessert.
Custard: Fills the gaps and sets during cooking, binding the pudding pieces together with a soft, creamy texture.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.