Cabinet Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the mold
Butter a mold and line it with raisins.
Assemble and steam
Add the sponge cake squares and more raisins on top.
Pour the rich custard over the cake and raisins.
Steam the mixture for 1.5 hours.
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
- Sponge cakes
- Soaks up the custard and forms the soft, sponge-like body of the pudding.
- Rich custard
- Sets during steaming to bind the cake and raisins into a tender, moist pudding.
- Raisins
- Add pockets of sweetness and chew throughout the pudding.
The step that matters
Steam the mixture for 1.5 hours. Gentle, steady steam heats the custard slowly so it sets evenly. Too much heat can cause the custard to curdle or turn the pudding rubbery.
“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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