Sweets/Treats Berry Pudding Without Milk or Eggs

berry pudding without milk or eggs. - 46.
(from The Young Housekeeper's Friend, by Mrs. Mary Hooker Cornelius, 1846)

Ingredients:

1 quart whortleberries​

1 pint flour​

1 small teaspoon salt​

water​

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sauce:​

1 large teacup sugar​

1 teacup water​

1 teacup rose water​

Instructions:

To a quart of washed whortleberries, put a pint of flour in which you have put a small teaspoonful of salt. Add a very little water. That which is upon the berries will be nearly enough. Boil it two hours in a cloth tied close, allowing no room to swell. It may be eaten with a sauce made without butter, - with a large teacup full of sugar, a teacup of water, and another of rose water.​