Cabinet Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the mold
Butter a mold generously.
Line the bottom with raisins.
Assemble and cook
Add a layer of sponge cake, then more raisins.
Pour rich custard over the cake and raisins.
Steam 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
- Form the bulk of the pudding and soak up the custard as it sets.
- Raisins
- Add sweetness and chewy texture between the layers.
- Rich custard
- Sets with gentle steam to bind the cake and raisins into a soft, moist pudding.
The step that matters
Steam for 1.5 hours. Gentle, steady steam cooks the egg-based custard evenly so it sets without curdling or becoming rubbery. Too much heat can make it weep or turn grainy.
“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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