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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Must
  2. a pound of soda
  3. Salt
  4. Puddings
  5. Water
  6. Rub

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Put a pound of soda into your largest saucepan, fill it up with water, put on the cover, and set it on to boil.
  2. When it boils, skim off the dirt which rises, cover it down close again, and let it continue boiling for three hours.
  3. — Then turn out the liquid into your next sized saucepan, and let it boil in that, after you have skimmed it, for the same time.
  4. And so with the next, until all are cleansed.
  5. Immediately you have turned the soda-water out of the first saucepan, you must rub it with dry salt, which will take all the brown off, then rinse the inside of it and the inside of the cover also, with boiling water, and wipe them quite dry, particularly in all the seams and crevices, while the saucepan is warm.
  6. And so do each one.
  7. Clean the inside of your frying-pans, in the same way.
  8. The inside of metal or other tea-pots, or moulds or shapes for puddings, may be cleansed and brightened, by putting into any of them a dessert-spoonful of soda, filling it full of water, and letting it stand all night.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Slotted spoon