Berry
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Combine the whortleberries with flour and salt.
Add just enough water to moisten the mixture.
Cook and serve
Boil in a cloth tied tightly for 2 hours, ensuring no room to swell.
Serve with melted sauce.
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
- Whortleberries
- Provide the main fruit flavour and juicy filling that moistens the pudding as it cooks.
- Flour
- Forms the starchy body that holds the pudding together as it sets.
The step that matters
Tying the cloth tightly. The pudding needs to be sealed with no room to swell, because flour expands as it cooks and a loose cloth lets water escape or the pudding swell unevenly, leaving it soggy or misshapen.
“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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