Apple, Currant, Cherry, or Other Fresh Fruit Pudding

• Currant, gooseberry, or cherry pudding, 1 to 1¼ hour.

Make a paste as for a beef-steak pudding, either with suet or butter; lay into a basin a well-floured cloth, which has been dipped into hot water, wrung dry, and shaken out; roll the paste thin, press it evenly into the basin upon the cloth, fill it with apples, pared, cored, and quartered, or with any other fruit; put on the cover, taking care to moisten the edges of the paste, to press them w