Name: Apple Pudding
Ingredients: a cup of boiling water; nutmeg

Apple Pudding

Ingredients

a cup of boiling water
nutmeg

Directions

Make the pudding

Place alternate layers of bread crumbs and apples chopped fine in a pudding dish sprinkled with sugar and add a little nutmeg, several pieces of butter.
Pour over all a cup of boiling water, cook until apples are done.

Serve

Serve with cream and sugar.

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. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Apples (in the method): Provide the main bulk and sweet, moist flavor as they soften during cooking.
Bread crumbs (in the method): Absorb liquid and give the pudding its soft, layered body.
Butter (in the method): Adds richness and fat that carries flavor and softens the crumbs.

“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.