Steamed Pudding No. 1

Ingredients

• two cups of flour
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• three fourths of a cup of milk

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together.

2. 2

   Rub in butter, add milk to make a soft dough.

3. 3

   Form into an oval loaf and steam for an hour and a half.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cookery (1899) by Emma P. Ewing, page 108. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two tablespoonfuls of butter. Add three fourths of a cup of milk, or enough to make a soft dough. Dust the molding board with flour, form into an oval-shaped loaf with the finger-tips, and steam, like suet pudding, for an hour and a half. Serve hot, with any pudding sauce preferred. Steamed Pudding No. 2. — Omit the butter, use thin cream for wetting, and make in all other respects like Steamed Pudding No. i. Steamed Pudding No. 3. — Sift together two cups of flour, one even. teaspoonful of soda, and half a teaspoon- ful of salt. Add a cup of sour cream, stir until perfectly mixed, then fill a buttered pudding bowl about two thirds full of the batter, and steam an hour and a half Serve hot, with liquid, foamy, or fruit sauce. Sour milk can be used instead of cream for making this pudding, if a spoonful of butter be mixed with the flour. Steamed Pudding No. 4. — Sift together two cups of 236 The Art of Cookery. flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and half a teaspoonful of salt. Mix with it three tablespoonfuls of butter, three eggs, well beaten, and sufficient milk to make a dough soft enough to drop from the spoon. Fill a buttered pudding mold three fourths full of the dough and steam an hour and a half. Serve with any pudding sauce desired. CLASS 3. Steamed Fruit Pudding. — Prepare like batter pudding or Steamed Pudding No. 4, and add one cup of seeded raisins, or minced citron, or dried currants, or one cup of a mixture of all three, well dusted with flour. Steam two hours. Steamed Apple Pudding No. i. — Sift together two cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and half a teaspoonful of salt

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