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vintage pudding mold.
Photo: Elizabeth Urbach |
I finally got started on my baking last week, and hopefully I'll get it all done before I have to start giving baked goods away as Christmas presents! Don't want to give out any I.O.U.s for cookies ... Anyway, I got the two kinds of Italian cookies baked, as well as two apple pies (for Thanksgiving), and the first historic recipe of the season: figgy pudding! I recently bought an antique pudding mold in one of the antique shops in Niles, and I've been wanting to use it ever since! Unfortunately, there was a bit of rust on the inside, so I wasn't sure if I could boil a pudding in it and avoid getting rust residue on the pudding. I had received a tip that apple cider vinegar would remove the rust and leave the metal food-safe, but when I scrubbed the rust with the vinegar it didn't seem to remove any of it. Granted, I didn't let it soak more than a minute or so before scrubbing ... I ended up deciding to line the mold with waxed paper instead of just buttering it like the recipe said, to give a little more protection. We'll see if that was enough when the pudding comes out of the steamer!
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