Another Boiled Indian Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Mix the Indian meal, suet, molasses, and salt together.
Tie the mixture in a cloth, leaving it room to swell by one fourth.
Boil the pudding for six hours.
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
- Indian meal
- Provides the main body and structure as it absorbs liquid and thickens during boiling.
- Suet
- Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and tender as it cooks.
- Molasses
- Adds sweetness, dark color, and moisture to the pudding.
The step that matters
Tie the cloth with room to swell. Cornmeal absorbs water and expands while boiling. If the cloth is tied too tightly, the pudding is squeezed and becomes dense, or the cloth can burst.
“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.
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