Apple Pudding

A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House · Conrad, Jessie · 1923
Source
A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House
Time
Cook: 180 min Total: 180 min
Status
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Ingredients (10)
Instructions (12)
  1. Mix the beef suet, self-raising flour, and salt with chilled water to a stiff paste.
  2. Roll three parts of this paste into a large piece on the pastry board.
  3. Butter a pudding basin by placing a piece of butter the size of a walnut into it and standing it on the stove to melt. Let the melted butter run over every part of the inside of the basin to prevent the paste sticking.
  4. Line the basin with the paste.
  5. Peel eight apples and cut them all round the core.
  6. Fill the basin with the prepared apples.
  7. Add three cloves or a little rind of lemon.
  8. Sweeten with brown sugar (about four or five good tablespoonfuls).
  9. Cover with another layer of the paste, working the ends together well to prevent the apples coming through.
  10. Tie a wet cloth over the top of the basin.
  11. Stand the basin in a saucepan of boiling water.
  12. Boil for three hours.
Original Text
Apple Pudding Take about a quarter of a pound of finely chopped beef suet, two and a half breakfast-cupfuls of self-raising flour, a little pinch of salt. Mix with chilled water to a stiff paste. Roll three parts of this into a large piece on the pastry board. Have ready a pudding basin buttered by putting a piece of butter the size of a walnut into it and standing it on the stove to melt. Then let it run over every part of the inside of the basin. This will prevent the paste sticking. Line the basin with the paste. Peel, say eight apples, and cut them all round the core. Fill the basin with them. Add three cloves or, if[Pg 122] preferred, a little rind of lemon, sweeten with brown sugar (about four or five good tablespoonfuls), cover with another layer of the paste, working the ends together well so as to prevent the apples coming through. Tie a wet cloth over and stand the basin in a saucepan of boiling water to boil for three hours.
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