Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Cut up a quarter of a pound of butter in a pint of molasses, and warm
them together till the butter is melted. Boil a quart of milk; and
while scalding hot, pour it slowly over a pint of sifted Indian meal,
and stir in the molasses and butter. Cover it, and let it steep for an
hour. Then take off the cover, and set the mixture to cool. When it is
cold, beat six eggs, and stir them gradually into it; add a
table-spoonful of mixed cinnamon and nutmeg; and the grated peel of a
lemon. Stir the whole very hard; put it into a buttered dish, and bake
it two hours. Serve it up hot, and eat it with wine sauce, or with
butter and molasses.
A BOILED INDIAN PUDDING.
Chop very fine a quarter of a pound of beef suet, and mix it with a
pint of sifted Indian meal. Boil a quart of milk with some pieces of
cinnamon broken up; strain it, and while it is hot, stir in gradually
the meal and suet; add half a pint of molasses. Cover the mixture and
set it away for an hour; then put it to cool. Beat six eggs, and stir
them gradually into the mixture when it is cold; add a grated nutmeg,
and the grated peel of a lemon. Tie the pudding in a cloth that has
been dipped in hot water and floured; and leave plenty of room for it
to swell. Secure it well at the tying place lest the water should get
in, which will infallibly spoil it. Put it into a pot of boiling water,
(which must be replenished as it boils away,) and boil it four hours at
least; but five or six will be better. To have an Indian pudding _very
good_, it should be mixed the night before, (all except the eggs,) and
put on to boil early in the morning. Do not take it out of the pot till
immediately before it is wanted. Eat it with wine sauce, or with
molasses and butter.
INDIAN PUDDING WITHOUT EGGS.
Boil some cinnamon in a quart of milk, and then strain it. While the
milk is hot, stir into it a pint of molasses, and then add by degrees a
quart or more of Indian meal so as to make a thick batter. It will be
much improved by the grated peel and juice of a large lemon or orange.
Tie it very securely in a thick cloth, leaving room for it to swell,
and pasting up the tying-place with a lump of flour and water. Put it
into a pot of boiling water, (having ready a kettle to fill it up as it
boils away,) hang it over a good fire, and keep it boiling hard for
four or five hours. Eat it warm with molasses and butter.
This is a very economical, and not an unpalatable pudding; and may be
found convenient when it is difficult to obtain eggs.
A BAKED PLUM PUDDING.
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