Name: Carrot Pudding
Ingredients: 2 cups grated carrots; 1 teaspoon baking soda; ¼ teaspoon salt

Carrot Pudding

Ingredients

2 cups grated carrots
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt

Directions

Combine grated carrots, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
Pour the mixture into a greased mold.
Steam the mold for 3 hours.

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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What each ingredient does

Grated carrots: Provide the main bulk, moisture, and sweetness of the pudding.
Baking soda: Reacts with the carrot mixture to lighten the texture as the pudding steams.

“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.