Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cloth in which a pudding is boiled.
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Examples
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The fullest directions were given to his chef — all, indeed, with the exception of mentioning the pudding-cloth.
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Great puddingy thighs in black pudding-cloth, or lean wooden sticks in black funeral stuff, or well-shaped young legs without any meaning whatever, either sensuality or tenderness or sensitiveness, just mere leggy ordinariness that pranced around.
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The fullest directions were given to his chef -- all, indeed, with the exception of mentioning the pudding-cloth.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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"No, I haven't a pudding-cloth; I 'm going to use a shirt."
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Then take it out, and when cold take off the pudding-cloth.
The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes W. G. Waters
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Tie up the rice very loose in a pudding-cloth, so as to admit that while boiling it may have sufficient room to swell out to five times its original quantity.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli
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"A pudding-cloth," I said, as if I had known all about it all along.
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Mix all the above ingredients together in a pan; tie up the pudding in a well-greased pudding-cloth, and place it in a pot containing _boiling_ water, and allow it to continue boiling for two hours; at the end of this time the pudding will be done, and may be turned out on its dish.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli
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Successive efforts to induce him to wear it proved vain, so Thomasina said the weather was warm and his hair was very thick, and she parted this and brushed it, and Miss Kitty gave the cap to the farm-bailiff's baby, who took to it as kindly as a dumpling to a pudding-cloth.
Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various
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Mix the whole of the above-named ingredients in a pan, into a firm compact paste; tie it up in a well-greased and floured pudding-cloth; boil the pudding for at least two hours and a-half, and when done, cut it in slices, and pour a little sweetened melted butter over it.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli
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