Boiled Batter Pudding

Boiled Batter Pudding

3 oz. flour

2 oz. sugar

1 oz. butter

1 pint milk

3 eggs

½ teaspoon baking powder

a pinch of salt

beat the butter and sugar to a cream, mix the baking powder with the flour, add them gradually, and the eggs with out beating then. Then add the milk by degrees, and the salt, and beat well until the batter is full of air bubbles. Pour into a buttered basin, tie a floured and scalded cloth over the top and plunge the pudding into a saucepan of fast-boiling. Water. Move the basin about for a few minutes to prevent the flour settling in any part. When done, turn it out of the basin and serve with wine or any sweet sauce. It must boil for 1 ¼ hours.

Variation

This pudding may be steamed instead of boiled.