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English Apple Pudding

6 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g fine flour
• 250 g suet, finely chopped
• 1 tsp ginger, powdered
• cold water (as needed)
• 6 pcs sour apples, quartered
• whole cloves (some)
• 2 tbsp salt
• sugar, for serving (as needed)

Instructions

1. Mix 500 g fine flour, 250 g finely chopped suet, and 1 heaped teaspoon powdered ginger thoroughly, then work into a dough with cold water until it no longer sticks to your hands.
2. Roll out the dough into a circle, place a napkin in a deep bowl, dust with a little flour, lay the dough inside, and fill with quartered sour apples and a few whole cloves.
3. Press the dough firmly together at the top, tie the cloth, and cook the pudding in boiling water with 2 tablespoons salt continuously for 1½-2 hours.
4. Serve sprinkled with sugar.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.