Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Take half a pound of sweet potatoes, wash them, and put them into a pot
with a very little water, barely enough to keep them from burning. Let
them simmer slowly for about half an hour; they must be only parboiled,
otherwise they will be soft, and may make the pudding heavy. When they
are half done, take them out, peel them, and when cold, grate them.
Stir together to a cream, half a pound of butter and a quarter of a
pound and two ounces of powdered sugar, add a grated nutmeg, a large
tea-spoonful of powdered cinnamon, and half a tea-spoonful of beaten
mace. Also the juice and grated peel of a lemon, a wine glass of rose
water, a glass of wine, and a glass of brandy. Stir these ingredients
well together. Beat eight eggs very light, and stir them into the
mixture in turn with the sweet potato, a little at a time of each.
Having stirred the whole very hard at the last, put it into a buttered
dish and bake it three quarters of an hour.
CARROT PUDDING.
May be made in the above manner.
GREEN CORN PUDDING.
Take twelve ears of green corn, as it is called, (that is, Indian corn
when full grown, but before it begins to harden and turn yellow,) and
grate it. Have ready a quart of rich milk, and stir into it by degrees
a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, and a quarter of a pound of
sugar. Beat four eggs till quite light; and then stir them into the
milk, &c. alternately with the grated corn, a little of each at a time.
Put the mixture into a large buttered dish, and bake it four hours. It
may be eaten either warm or cold, For sauce, beat together butter and
white sugar in equal proportions, mixed with grated nutmeg.
To make this pudding—you may, if more convenient, boil the corn and cut
it from the cob; but let it get quite cold before you stir it into the
milk. If the corn has been previously boiled, the pudding will require
but two hours to bake.
SAGO PUDDING.
Pick, wash, and dry half a pound of currants; and prepare a
tea-spoonful of powdered cinnamon; a half tea-spoonful of powdered
mace; and a beaten nutmeg. Have ready six table-spoonfuls of sago,
picked clean, and soaked for two hours in cold water. Boil the sago in
a quart of milk till quite soft. Then stir alternately into the milk, a
quarter of a pound of butter, and six ounces of powdered sugar, and set
it away to cool. Bent eight eggs, and when they are quite light, stir
them gradually into the milk, sago, &c. Add the spice, and lastly the
currants; having dredged them well with flour to prevent their sinking.
Stir the whole very hard, put it into a buttered dish, and bake it
three quarters of an hour. Eat it cold.
ARROW ROOT PUDDING.
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