Fruit Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Bring the sweetened fruit to a boil.
In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, and salt with a fork.
Cook
Drop the flour mixture into the boiling fruit.
Cover tightly and move to the back of the stove.
Cook slowly for 30 minutes.
Serve
Serve with hard 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
- Fruit
- Supplies moisture, sweetness and flavor that soak into the pudding as it cooks.
- Flour
- Forms the starchy structure that sets into the body of the pudding as it cooks.
- Baking powder
- Releases gas as it heats, helping the flour mixture rise and turn light.
The step that matters
Keeping the lid tightly covered while cooking slowly. The trapped steam cooks the flour mixture through from above while it simmers gently in the fruit. Lifting the lid or letting the liquid boil hard lets steam escape, so the dough can turn dense or stay raw in the middle.
“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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