Meat Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 lb. beef steak or
• ½ lb. kidney, or leg of beef
• 1 gill boiling water
• 1 tablespoonful flour
• 1 small teaspoonful salt
• 1 small teaspoonful pepper
• Suet paste (quantity as given below)

Method

1. 1

   Cut the meat in squares, or in slices and rolled as for Meat Pie, and dip into the seasoning.

2. 2

   Put it into a basin or pie dish, pour the boiling water over to close the pores, and set it aside to cool while making the paste.

3. 3

   Grease another basin (1 pt. size), cut off 1 of the paste and form the larger piece into a ball, then roll it to twice the size of the top of the basin, line the basin with it, put the meat and water in.

4. 4

   Form the smaller piece into a ball also, and roll it out to the size wanted for the top, wet the edge of the lining, cover it, press the edges together, and steam or boil from 2 to 4 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery book and general axioms for plain cookery (1890) by E. Briggs, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MEAT PUDDING. Ingredients : — 1 lb. beef steak or | lb. skirt, and £ lb. kidney, or leg of beef. 1 gill boiling water. 1 tablespoonful flour 1 small teaspoonful salt. V Seasoning. i „ „ pepper J Suet paste (quantity as given below)

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