Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
For all boiled puddings, a square pudding-cloth which can be opened
out, is much better than a bag. It should be very thick.
A BAKED BREAD PUDDING.
Take a stale five cent loaf of bread; cut off all the crust, and grate
or rub the crumb as fine as possible. Boil a quart of rich milk, and
pour it hot over the bread; then stir in a quarter of a pound of
butter, and the same quantity of sugar, a glass of wine and brandy
mixed, or a glass of rose water. Or you may omit the liquor and
substitute the grated peel of a large lemon. Add a table-spoonful of
raised cinnamon and nutmeg powdered. Stir the whole very well, cover
it, and set it away for half an hour. Then let it cool. Beat seven or
eight eggs very light, and stir them gradually into the mixture after
it is cold. Then butter a deep dish, and bake the pudding an hour. Send
it to table cool.
A BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING.
Cut some slices of bread and butter moderately thick, omitting the
crust; stale bread is best. Butter a deep dish, and cover the bottom
with slices of the buttered bread. Have ready a pound of currants,
picked, washed and dried. Spread one third of them thickly over the
bread and butter, and strew on some brown sugar. Then put another layer
of bread and butter, and cover it also with currants and sugar. Finish
with a third layer of each, and pour over the whole four eggs, beaten
very light and mixed with a pint of milk, and a wine glass of rose
water. Bake the pudding an hour, and grate nutmeg over it when done.
Eat it warm, but not hot.
You may substitute for the currants, raisins seeded, and cut in half.
This pudding may be made also with layers of stewed gooseberries
instead of the currants, or with pippin apples pared, cored and minced
fine.
A SUET PUDDING.
Mince very finely as much beef suet as will make two large
table-spoonfuls. Grate two handfuls of bread-crumbs; boil a quart of
milk and pour it hot on the bread. Cover it, and set it aside to steep
for half an hour; then put it to cool. Beat eight eggs very light; stir
the suet, and three table-spoonfuls of floor alternately into the bread
and milk, and add, by degrees, the eggs. Lastly, stir in a
table-spoonful of powdered nutmeg and cinnamon mixed, and a glass of
mixed wine and brandy. Pour it into a bag that has been dipped in hot
water and floured; tie it firmly, put it into a pot of boiling water,
and boil it two hours. Do not take it up till immediately before it is
wanted, and send it to table hot.
Eat it with wine sauce, or with molasses.
A CUSTARD PUDDING.
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