[Sca-cooks] cakes

[Terry Decker]

You can steam a pudding in a pudding cloth and the instructions in some 
cases are unclear as to whether the pudding is to be immersed or not.  As a 
practical point it may not matter, but I haven't tried any experiments to 
see if it does.

Bear


From: "Nancy Kiel" <nancy_kiel at hotmail.com>


I thought steamed puddings were later than our time period...you don't see 
the technique even in the 18th century really, although I have a vague 
recollection of trying custards in little cups in a bake kettle/Dutch oven 
with water.....


  Puddings can be boiled, steamed or baked.  Most of the ones I've 
encountered
  that are close to Elizabethean call for a pudding cloth and boiling.  This
  recipe, however, is over fifty years later and consideration must be given
  to how much the French culinary traditions influenced Evelyn.

  Bear

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