To Boil Flour for Puddings
Ingredients
Directions
Fill a large pot with fast-boiling water.
Put the flour into a white cloth bag, tie it, and plunge it into the water.
Keep it moving up and down for 1 minute.
Let it boil for 2 hours.
Remove the bag, let it cool, and keep it for use.
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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