English Apple Pudding

Ingredients

• half a pound of beef kidney suet
• a small teaspoonful of salt
• a scant pound of flour
• a small cup of water
• a quart bowl of apples
• as much sugar as you think your apples will need
• the rind of a lemon
• some nutmeg
• a cloth to cover the pudding

Method

1. 1

   Chop the suet finely and mix with flour and salt.

2. 2

   Make a hole in the center, add water, and mix lightly.

3. 3

   Roll out the paste and line a buttered bowl.

4. 4

   Fill with sliced apples, sugar, lemon rind, nutmeg, and water.

5. 5

   Cover with paste, tie with a cloth, and boil in water for three hours.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Catherine Owen's new cook book .. (1885) by Helen Alice (Matthews) Nitsch, page 103. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a small teaspoon- ful of salt ; mix it with a scant pound of flour ; make a hole in the centre and put in a small cup of water ; mix it as quickly and as lightly as you would biscuit ; add more water, if needed, to make it a firm but not hard 201 202 Practical Recipes. paste ; roll out on a floured board once to the thickness of half an inch ; butter a quart bowl well ; line it with this paste, pressing it in every part lightly ; leave it an inch above the bowl ; cut off what remains over the inch margin ; roll it out for the cover ; then fill the bowl with apples peeled and cut in slices ; heap it up high ; pour over them as much sugar as you think your apples will need, and grate the rind of a lemon or some nut- meg

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