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- From: nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
- Subject: Re: pudding molds
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- In article <1992Nov19.183044.4468@news.columbia.edu>, pw@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Paul Wakenight) writes:
- |> I've bought some pudding molds at auctions, etc. in New England. They look about 100yrs.
- |> old and are upright cylinders, wider at top than at bottom. What kinds of puddings are
- |> these used for????
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- Pudding moulds were used for things like blancmange, rice pudding variants,
- stewed fruit thickened with starch, jellies (British usage not American) and
- so on. The more pretentious households had a different set (with different
- patterns) for savoury dishes, like brawn and things in aspic, but pudding
- moulds were often used. Mrs Beeton and other traditional 18th/19th/20th
- century English cookbooks have relevant recipes, though many of them are deadly
- dull. I am surprised that they are cylindrical, because that is a shape that
- I have never seen.
-
- But are you sure that they are pudding moulds? They might just be raised pie
- (i.e. host water crust) pie moulds, or even something that I haven't thought of.
- These usually clip together, rather than being in one piece.
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- Nick Maclaren
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