1709 T. Hall 48 Put your Pudding-cloth in boiling Water, and let it boil a little, then squeeze it out, and spread it all over with Butter.
1845 E. Acton xii. 307 The bird..wrapped in a thin pudding-cloth, closely tied at both ends.
1971 17 June 1537/2 He tried to do it with oddments of coloured knitting wools on a pudding cloth.
2005 (Nexis) 17 Dec. 58 How about a cannonball plum pudding, cooked in a cloth? The pudding cloth was a great invention.