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For pastry: Combine flour, suet, baking powder, salt and water to form a smooth dough.
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Dust a smooth surface with flour and press out pastry with fingers to form a circle 1/4 inch thick.
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Lay a pudding cloth or cheesecloth into a basin or large ovenproof bowl and mold the pastry to it.
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In a separate bowl, combine kidney and steak.
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Season well with salt and pepper.
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Add parsley and thyme.
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Dust with a little flour.
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Place half the meat mixture into the suet crust.
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Add half the mushrooms, then the remaining meat, and the mushrooms again.
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Add enough oyster juice to the wine to make 1/2 cup and pour into the pudding.
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Brush the edges of the crust with water.
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Use the cloth to fold the pastry sides over to cover the filling.
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Cut away excess dough.
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Tie cloth with a string.
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Bring a pot (large enough to completely enclose the pudding bowl) filled half way with water to a boil.
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Place pudding bowl in pot-the water should reach up to 3/4 of the sides of the bowl.
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Cover with lid.
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Or to mold the pudding to the shape of a baby's head, remove the nob from the lid of the pot and thread the cloth's string through the exposed holes.
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Secure the string to the pot's handles to suspend the pudding in the pot.
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Boil pudding for 3 1/2 hours.
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Make sure the water doesn't boil away.
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One hint: place two marbles in the pot with the water.
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Their pinging will notify you when the water completely evaporates.
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Remove pudding from bowl.
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Carefully pull away pudding cloth and invert pudding onto a large, heated serving dish.
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Cut out a top in the pudding's crust and add the oysters, mixing them in with a fork.
