Name: Boiled Puddings
Ingredients: pudding batter; flour; water

Boiled Puddings

Ingredients

pudding batter
flour
water

Directions

Ensure there is enough water in the kettle to boil the pudding for the required time.
Scald a clean cloth bag and sprinkle it with flour.
Turn the bag inside out and fill it with the pudding batter.
Tie the bag tightly, leaving room for the pudding to swell.
Plunge the bag into a kettle of boiling water.
Cover the kettle and do not disturb until the pudding is done.

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.