Name: Boiled Puddings
Ingredients: butter for greasing; writing paper; pudding batter

Boiled Puddings

Ingredients

butter for greasing
writing paper
pudding batter

Directions

Grease a pudding mold or basin well with butter.
Lay a thickly buttered sheet of writing paper between the custard mixture and the cloth.
Tie the cloth securely over the mixture or close the lid of the mold.
Boil the pudding in water, ensuring the mold is full.
After boiling, let the pudding sit in the mold for 5 minutes before serving.
Serve immediately to prevent heaviness.

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.