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To Boil a Pudding in a Cloth

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Wring the cloth out of boiling water and spread it over a bowl.

  2. Sprinkle the cloth with flour.

  3. Fill the cloth with the pudding mixture, draw it together, and tie tightly.

  4. Flour near the opening.

  5. Plunge the cloth into boiling water and keep the water boiling during cooking.

  6. Add boiling water as needed and replenish the fire often.

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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