Puddings
Apple Pudding (Boston).—Paste, 3; 12 or 14 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced; 1 teaspoon extract nutmeg, 1½ cups sugar. Line edge of deep earthenware dish with the paste; pack in the apples, add sugar, ⅓ cup water, and extract; wet edge of paste; lay on cover of paste, press two together, ornament edge, wash with milk, bake in moderate oven; serve with rich cream.
Apple Pudding (English).—Paste, 2; 12 or 14 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced; 1 teaspoon extract nutmeg, 1½ cups sugar. Line earthenware pudding-mold with paste, pack in apples, sugar, and extract; wet edges; cover, pinch edges together firmly; place in saucepan ½ full boiling water.
Apple Tapioca Pudding.—Pare and core enough apples to fill dish; put into each apple bit of lemon peel. Soak ½ pint tapioca in 1 quart lukewarm water 1 hour, add a little salt; flavor with lemon; pour over apples. Bake until apples are tender. Serve cold with cream and sugar.
Blackberry Pudding.—Paste, 2; 1 quart berries, 1½ cups sugar. Proceed as directed for apple pudding.
Blackberry Pudding, 2.—Proceed as directed for cottage pudding, adding 1½ cups blackberries; serve with liquid sauce.
Batter Pudding (Baked).—Proceed as directed for batter pudding (boiled), baking it in well-buttered pudding-dish 35 minutes; serve with foaming sauce.
Batter Pudding (with Fruit).—1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, pint milk, 4 eggs, 2 cups any kind of fruit prepared as usual, 1½ cups sugar. Sift flour, sugar, and powder together, add eggs, beaten, milk, and fruit; pour into well-buttered pudding-dish, bake in quick oven 40 minutes; serve with wine sauce.
Batter Pudding (Boiled).—1½ cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon butter, 10 drops extract nutmeg, 2 eggs, 1 pint milk. Sift flour, salt, and powder together; rub in butter cold; add eggs, beaten, and milk; mix into batter as for muffins; pour into well-buttered mold; set in saucepan with boiling water ⅔ up sides of mold; steam one hour, and serve with spice sauce.
Boston Baked Plum Pudding.—1½ cups beef suet, freed of skin, chopped very fine, 1½ cups raisins, stoned, 1½ cups currants, washed and picked, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 4 eggs, 1 cup milk, ½ cup citron, chopped, pinch salt, 1 tablespoon extract nutmeg, 1 glass brandy. Put all these ingredients in a bowl, eggs as they drop from the shell, flour sifted with powder, and brandy; mix into rather short batter; pour into well-buttered clean cake-tin, bake in steady oven 2 hours; serve with vanilla sauce.
Cabinet Pudding.-½ pound stale sponge cake, ½ cup raisins, ½ can peaches, 4 eggs, 1½ pints milk. Butter plain oval mold; lay in some stale cake, ⅓ of the raisins, stoned, ⅓ of peaches; make two layers of remainder of cake, raisins, and peaches; cover with very thin slice of bread; then pour over milk beaten with eggs and sugar; set in saucepan with boiling water to reach ⅔ up sides of mold, steam it ¾ hour, turn out carefully on dish, and serve with peach sauce.
Cottage Pudding.—1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 2 cups cream, 1 pint flour, 1½ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Beat the eggs and sugar together; add cream, flour with the powder sifted in, and a pinch of salt; mix into smooth batter as for cup cake; put into long narrow or oval buttered mold, bake in hot oven 30 minutes; serve with liquid or foaming sauce.
Cottage Pudding, 2.—1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk, 1 egg, lump butter size of egg, 1 pint flour, salt, 1 heaping teaspoon Royal Baking Powder.Sauce.—1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon flour, small piece of butter, mixed. Add boiling water, let come to boil, flavor with extract vanilla.
Cherry Pudding.—2 eggs, 1 cup milk, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1½ cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, pinch salt. Mix in order given, turn into shallow greased pan. Over top put 2 pounds cherries, press into the batter, sprinkle with 3 tablespoons granulated sugar. Bake 30 minutes in moderate oven, serve hot with cream and sugar.
Chocolate Pudding.—1 quart milk, scalded; 1½ squares chocolate, grated; wet with cold milk, and stir into scalded milk. When chocolate is dissolved, pour into pudding-dish; add yolks of 6 eggs, well- beaten, and 6 tablespoons sugar. Bake about ¾ hour. Beatwhites of eggs to stiff froth; add 6 tablespoons sugar. Spread the frosting over top; set again in oven until a light brown.
Custard Pudding.—1½ pints milk, 4 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons extract vanilla, and pinch of salt. Beat eggs and sugar together; dilute with milk and extract; pour into buttered pudding-dish, set in oven in dripping-pan ⅔ full of boiling water; bake until firm, about 40 minutes, in moderate oven.
Fig Pudding.-½ pound good dried figs, washed, wiped, and minced; 2 cups fine dry bread crumbs, 3 eggs, ½ cup beef suet, powdered; 2 scant cups sweet milk, ½ cup white sugar, in which 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder has been mixed, little salt. Soak the crumbs in milk, add eggs, beaten light with sugar, salt, suet, and figs. Beat 3 minutes; put in buttered mold with tight top, set in boiling water with weight on cover to prevent mold from upsetting, and boil 3 hours. Eat hot with hard sauce made of butter, powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon extract nutmeg.
Indian Pudding.-½ cup flour, 1½ cups Indian corn meal, ½ cup syrup, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 quart milk. Mix flour, corn meal, salt, and cup milk together; pour the rest on it, boiling; stir once in a while for 30 minutes; bake in moderate oven 2 hours in well-buttered pudding-dish; serve with wine sauce.
Lemon Suet Pudding.—3 cups stale bread, 1 cup suet, ½ cup sugar, mixed with 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 4 eggs, 1 tablespoon extract lemon, 1½ pints milk, pinch salt. Grate bread, chop suet, freed of skin, very fine, put them in bowl; add sugar, eggs, beaten, salt, and extract; pour over boiling milk, stirring it the while; suffer it to stand 30 minutes, covered, then pour into well-buttered pudding-dish; bake in moderate oven 40 minutes; serve with sugar sauce.
Orange Pudding.—1½ cups stale Royal unfermented bread, 1 cup finely chopped suet, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, juice of 1 orange or 1 tablespoon extract orange, ½ cup milk. Mix all thoroughly together, fill 6 cups, well greased, boil 30 minutes. Turn out on dish, serve with hard sauce flavored with 1 teaspoon extract orange.
Peach Cottage Pudding.—Make a batter with ½ cup sugar, 3 tablespoons melted butter, 1 beaten egg, 1 cup milk, 2 cups flour, 1½ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Stir in 2 cups sliced peaches, bake in a loaf and serve with hard sauce.
Fine Peach Pudding.—Fill pudding-dish with whole peeled peaches, pour over 1 pint water, cover, and bake till peaches are tender. Drain off juice and let cool. Add to it 2 cups milk, 4 beaten eggs, 1 scant cup flour mixed with 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon melted butter, pinch salt. Beat hard 4 minutes, pour over peaches in dish, bake to rich brown and serve with cream.
“Poor Man’s Pudding.”-½ cup suet, chopped, ½ cup seeded raisins, ½ cup currants, washed and picked, 1½ cups grated bread, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, ½ cup brown sugar, 1 pint milk. Mix all well together, put into well-greased mold, set in saucepan with boiling water to reach ½ up sides of mold; steam 2 hours; turn out on dish carefully; serve with butter and sugar.
Plum Pudding (Royal Christmas).—2 cups raisins, 2 cups currants, 2 cups suet, ½ cup almonds, blanched, 2 cups flour, 2 cups grated bread, ½ cup each citron, orange, and lemon peels, 8 eggs, 1 cup sugar, ½ cup cream, 1 gill each wine and brandy, large pinch salt, 1 tablespoon extract nutmeg, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Put in large bowl raisins, seeded, currants, washed and picked, suet, chopped very fine, almonds, cut fine, citron, orange, and lemon peels, chopped, sugar, wine, brandy, and cream; lastly, add flour, sifted with powder; mix all well together, put in large, well-buttered mold (fig. II); set in saucepan with boiling water to reach ½ up sides of mold, steam thus 5 hours; turn out on dish carefully; serve with Royal wine sauce.
Plum Pudding, 2.—1½ cups each grated bread, very finely chopped suet, raisins, seeded, currants, washed and picked, and coffee sugar, ½ cup each citron, milk, and orange marmalade, 4 eggs, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon each extract cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Mix all these ingredients well together in large bowl, put in well-buttered mold, set in saucepan with boiling water to reach ½ up its sides; steam thus 3½ hours; turn out carefully on dish, and serve with Royal wine sauce.
Princess Pudding.-⅔ cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 large cup flour, 3 eggs, ½ teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, small glass brandy. Rub to smooth cream butter and sugar; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating few minutes after each addition; add flour sifted with powder, and brandy; put into mold well-buttered, set in saucepan with boiling water to reach ½ up its sides; steam thus 1½ hours; turn out on dish carefully; serve with lemon sauce.
Raisin Roly Poly.—2 cups flour, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, sifted together. Rub in 2 tablespoons butter, mix with milk to soft dough, roll out ½ inch thick. Spread with a little soft butter. Sprinkle thickly with seeded raisins, then with 2 tablespoons granulated sugar. Roll up, pinch ends together, lay on buttered pie-plate, and steam 30 minutes. Dry off in oven 10 minutes. Serve with creamy or liquid sauce.
Raisin Pudding.—1 cup finely chopped suet, ½ cup sugar, 2 eggs, ½ cup milk, 1 cup entire wheat flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 cup floured raisins. Steam 3 hours. Serve with liquid sauce.
Rice Pudding.-½ cup rice, 1½ pints milk, ½ cup sugar, large pinch salt, 1 tablespoon lemon rind chopped fine. Put rice, washed and picked, sugar, salt, and milk in quart pudding-dish; bake in moderate oven 2 hours, stirring frequently first 1½ hours, then permit it to finish cooking with light-colored crust, disturbing it no more. Eat cold with cream.
Rice Pudding, 2.-½ cup rice, ¾ pint milk, 4 apples, peeled, cored, and stewed, ⅓ cup sugar, 4 eggs. Boil rice in milk until reduced to pulp; beat well with apple sauce and sugar for 10 minutes, then set aside to cool; then carefully mix in whites of eggs, whipped to stiff froth,butter the mold, pour in pudding, set in saucepan with boiling water to reach ½ up its sides; steam slowly for 25 minutes; permit it to stand 3 minutes before turning out; serve with custard sauce.
Sago Pudding.—1 quart milk, 4 tablespoons sago boiled in the milk till soft; set dish in kettle of hot water, and let sago swell gradually. Beat up 3 eggs, and stir into cooked milk and sago; salt and sugar to taste. Then put in oven and bake very lightly. Serve with creamy sauce.
Soufflé of Different Fruits.—With fruits of a soft and juicy nature, such as peaches, plums, apricots, bananas, etc., proceed in this manner: Remove the kernels and press the fruit through a sieve; put what you have thus obtained in a bowl, adding ½ pound powdered sugar and the whites of 3 eggs; beat well with an egg-beater for 5 or 6 minutes. Then take the whites of 6 or 7 eggs and beat them into a stiff froth; mix well together. Put this on a dish in a well-heated oven 5 or 6 minutes before serving. Sprinkle powdered sugar on top. For hard fruits, such as apples, pears, etc., cook them first and then press through a sieve. The treatment is exactly the same as for the others.
Suet Pudding.—2 eggs, 1 cup milk, ½ cup molasses, ½ cup finely chopped suet, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 3 scant cups flour, spices to taste, and 1 cup mixed chopped fruit—raisins, citron, currants, or almonds. Steam 2 hours and serve with a soft sauce.
Tapioca Pudding.—1 small cup tapioca, 1 quart milk, 1 teaspoon butter, 3 tablespoons sugar. Soak tapioca in water 4 or 5 hours, then add the milk; flavor with extract lemon, or anything else you prefer. Bake slowly 1 hour. To be made day before it is wanted, and eaten cold with cream or milk and sugar. Some prefer the pudding made with 3 pints milk and no water.
Tapioca and Cocoanut Pudding.—1 cup tapioca soaked overnight, 1 quart milk, yolks 4 eggs, whites of 2, 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons grated cocoanut; bake ½ hour. Make frosting of whites 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons grated cocoanut; spread over pudding when baked. Set in oven until a light brown.
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