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To Boil a Pudding in a Cloth

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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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 and draw it together tightly.

  4. Tie the cloth securely and flour near the opening.

  5. Plunge the pudding 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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