Boiled Cherry Pudding

Ingredients

• two quarts of stoned cherries
• three eggs
• one pint and a half of stale bread
• one pint of milk
• one pint of flour
• one teaspoonful of salt
• two of baking-powder
• one tablespoonful of sugar
• one-fourth of a nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Soak bread in milk for an hour.

2. 2

   Mix sugar, salt, and baking powder with flour, grate nutmeg over it, and sift into the bowl with bread and milk.

3. 3

   Add beaten eggs and cherries.

4. 4

   Dip pudding cloth in boiling water, spread in a deep dish, dredge with flour, pour batter in, tie cloth tight, and boil in a pot of boiling water for two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 320. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Cherry Pudding. This is made of two quarts of stoned cherries, three eggs, one pint and a half of stale bread, one pint of milk, one pint of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, two of baking- powder, one table-spoonful of sugar, and one-fourth of a nutmeg

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