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Jam Dumpling or Blanket

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Jam Dumpling or Blanket

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sprinkle a little flour over the dough and tie it in a floured cloth.

  2. Boil for three hours.

  3. Spread the paste with jam, leaving 2 inches bare around the edges.

  4. Wet the edges with cold water and roll the paste up tightly.

  5. Pinch the ends to seal it well.

  6. Flour the cloth and roll it up cornerways, tying it firmly at both ends.

  7. Place it in boiling water and cook for three 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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