[Sca-cooks] Steamed Puddings...

[Kirrily Robert]

In lists.sca.sca-cooks, you wrote:
>C. Anne Wilson spends pages 315-322 of her
>Food and Drink in Britain discussing puddings
>and their history in England. Boiled suet
>puddings took off with the invention of the
>pudding cloth which she dates to a mention in
>1617. Before that time they had used animal guts.
>The other Tudor alternative was to do the pudding
>in a pie crust in a side oven. Check for recipes
>in English works beg. in the 17th century. Karen
>Hess provides a full commentary to go along with
>the pudding recipes contained in Martha Washington's
>Booke of Cookery. See pages 101-112.

There are some pudding recipes from "The English Huswife" at
http://infotrope.net/sca/texts/english-housewife/puddings.html

K.

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