Hydropathic Red Currant Pudding

Ingredients

• some stale bread
• sugar
• fruit of all kinds, fresh or bottled

Method

1. 1

   Stew fresh fruit with water and sugar until cooked.

2. 2

   For bottled fruit, boil syrup with sugar and simmer fruit in it.

3. 3

   Cut stale bread into a round piece and arrange in a basin.

4. 4

   Add fruit carefully to avoid displacing bread, cover with small dice of stale bread, weigh down, and set in a cool place until needed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 180. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

hydropathic red currant pudding for dinner to-morrow. Hydropathic Pudding may be made with fruit of all kinds, fresh or bottled. If fresh fruit is used, it must be stewed with water and sugar until it is about as much cooked as it would be in a fruit pie. If bottled fruit is used, the syrup only should be boiled with sugar, and the fruit simmered in it for a minute or two. Take some stale bread

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