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| Figgy pudding just out of the kettle. |
Well, the pudding is out of the kettle and cooling on a rack now. It looks like the waxed paper did its job of protecting the pudding from the rust on the inside of the mold, although it looked like the rust didn't come off on the paper anyways! Interestingly, there is now more rust on the outside of the mold, in a line halfway down from the lid, where the water level was. I'm not sure how to remove that. There was also a metallic black residue that came off of the outside of the lid when I took the mold out of the kettle, but that has disappeared now that the mold isn't covered with steam.
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| Figgy pudding out of the mold. |
In any case, the pudding came out of the mold perfectly (of course it was surrounded with waxed paper) and hardly stuck to the waxed paper at all. I let it boil for the full 4 hours called for by the recipe, and when I tested the pudding with a knife stuck in the center, there were no crumbs or batter stuck to the knife, and it felt firm yet moist. It didn't rise at all, so I hope it's not too heavy! It smells good, like figs and butter, but I can't smell the nutmeg at all. I hope we'll be able to taste it. I haven't decided whether or not to make a sauce to serve with it tomorrow night. We'll see.
Even though, as the saying goes, "the proof of a pudding is in the eating," I'm calling this a success!
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I have always, always wanted to try this!
Well, it wasn't that hard, Steph! If you have a 2 quart Pyrex bowl you could make a cover from waxed paper and foil tied under the rim with kitchen twine, and use that as your pudding mold. Boil it in a wok or a big pot, and it should work fine! My next pudding experiment will be boiling one in a cloth. We'll see when I get around to that!
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