Suet Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Make the pudding
Mix the flour, salt, and suet into a very stiff batter.
Grease a basin and pour the batter into it.
Tie a wet pudding cloth over the basin.
Cook
Boil for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Flour
- Forms the structure of the pudding as it sets during boiling.
- Suet
- Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and gives it a rich, tender texture.
The step that matters
Tie the cloth firmly over the basin. A tight, wet cloth traps steam so the pudding cooks through in the water bath, while a loose cover lets water in and makes the pudding soggy.
“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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