Steamed Chocolate Pudding

Steamed chocolate pudding isn’t your standard plastic cup chocolate pudding; this is a proper pudding served in a rustic fashion: a tin can! It’s easy and gives a new life to something you would otherwise throw away after using.

Steamed Chocolate Pudding – Cooking Down East

Ingredients
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 squares chocolate
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon butter
Directions

Beat egg. Add sugar and continue to beat. Add melted butter and chocolate, that have been cooled.

Sift flour and measure. Sift together with salt and baking powder. Add dry ingredients alternately into creamed mixture with milk. Add vanilla.

Pour into greased pan and steam for 1 hour.

Steaming directions: Grease 2 tin cans well. Pour batter evenly into them both, and cover by tying wax paper to the top of the cans, or press aluminum foil to cover the top. Set cans into a pie plate. Pour hot water into pie plate. Set into oven. Bake 1 hour at 350 F (175 C).

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