Apple Pudding

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working ... · Francatelli, Charles Elmé · 1852
Source
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
Time
Cook: 120 min Total: 120 min
Status
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Ingredients (7)
Instructions (8)
  1. Mix the flour, suet, and salt with three quarters of a pint of water into a firm paste.
  2. Roll this out with flour shaken over the table, using a rolling-pin to roll it out.
  3. Line a greased cloth, which you have spread in a hollow form within a large basin, with the rolled-out paste.
  4. Fill up the hollow part of the paste with the peeled apples.
  5. Gather up the sides of the paste in a purse-like form, and twist them firmly together.
  6. Tie up the pudding in the cloth.
  7. Boil it in plenty of boiling water for two hours.
  8. When it is turned out of the cloth on to its dish, cut out a round piece from the top, and stir in the sugar.
Original Text
No. 45. Apple Pudding. Ingredients, one pound and a-half of flour, six ounces of suet chopped fine, two pounds of peeled apples, four ounces of sugar, a little salt, and three gills of water. Mix the flour, suet, and salt with three quarters of a pint of water into a firm paste; roll this out with flour shaken over the table, using a rolling-pin to roll it out; and line a greased cloth, which you have spread in a hollow form within a large basin, with the rolled-out paste; fill up the hollow part of the paste with the peeled apples, gather up[31] the sides of the paste in a purse-like form, and twist them firmly together; tie up the pudding in the cloth, boil it in plenty of boiling water for two hours, and when it is turned out of the cloth on to its dish, cut out a round piece from the top, and stir in the sugar.
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