To Boil a Pudding

A pudding mixture may either be boiled in a bowl covered with a cloth, or in a cloth only. If you use a bowl, fill it completely with your pudding mixture; then top pudding with a round of bread, which is afterwards removed. This prevents water from soaking into the pudding and making it soft. To enclose pudding: wring out a clean cloth that has been soaked in boiling water: sprinkle it lightly with flour and fix it firmly over the bowl by tying a string under the rim of the bowl in a loop knot so that it can easily be untied. Bring up the four corners of the cloth and tie them over the top of the pudding, or fasten them together with a safety-pin.