Heart to Hearth Cookery

Preparing the Bag

Once all the ingredients have been mixed for the pudding, it is time to prepare the pudding bag.  Pudding bags are approximately one yard square of linen that can be tied with twine to create a bag.  It depends on the type of pudding receipt (recipe) how to prepare the cloth but the first step of wetting the cloth is the same.  In the picture, I am dunking the cloth in the heated water of the kettle.  For some puddings, the bag is floured and/or buttered, and for the pudding that I am preparing, all that is needed is for the cloth to be wet.