Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
All the ingredients of this plum pudding (except the eggs) should be
prepared the day before, otherwise it cannot be made in time to allow
of its being sufficiently boiled.
We have known of a very rich plum pudding being mixed in England and
sent to America in a covered bowl; it arrived perfectly good after a
month’s voyage, the season being winter.
A BAKED APPLE PUDDING.
Take nine large pippin apples; pare and core them whole. Set them in
the bottom of a large deep dish, and pour round them a very little
water, just enough to keep them from burning. Put them into an oven,
and let them bake about half an hour. In the mean time, mix three
table-spoonfuls of flour with a quart of milk, a quarter of a pound of
brown sugar, and a tea-spoonful of mixed spice. Beat seven eggs very
light, and stir them gradually into the milk. Then take out the dish of
apples, (which by this time should be half baked,) and fill up the
holes from whence you extracted the cores, with brown sugar; pressing
down into each a slice of fresh lemon. Pour the batter round the
apples; put the dish again into the oven, and let it bake another half
hour; but not long enough for the apples to fall to pieces; as they
should, when done, be soft throughout, but quite whole. Send it to
table warm.
This is sometimes called a _Bird’s Nest Pudding_.
It will be much improved by previously boiling in the milk a small
handful of peach leaves. Let it get cold before you stir in the eggs.
BOILED APPLE PUDDING.
Pare, core, and quarter as many fine juicy apples as will weigh two
pounds when done. Strew among them a quarter of a pound of brown sugar,
and add a grated nutmeg, and the juice and yellow peel of a large
lemon. Prepare a paste of suet and flour, in the proportion of a pound
of chopped suet to two pounds of flour. Roll it out of moderate
thickness; lay the apples in the centre, and close the paste nicely
over them in the form of a large dumpling; tie it in a cloth and boil
it three hours. Send it to table hot, and eat with it cream sauce, or
with butter and sugar.
Any fruit pudding may be made in a similar manner.
AN EASTERN PUDDING.
Make a paste of a pound of flour and half a pound of minced suet; and
roll it out thin into a square or oblong sheet; trim off the edges so
as to make it an even shape. Spread thickly over it some marmalade, or
cold stewed fruit, (which must be made very sweet,) either apple,
peach, plum, gooseberry or cranberry. Roll up the paste, with the fruit
spread on it, into a scroll. Secure each end by putting on nicely a
thin round piece rolled out from the trimmings that you cut off the
edges of the sheet. Put the pudding into a cloth, and boil it at least
three hours. Serve it up hot, and eat it with cream sauce, or with
butter and sugar.
APPLE DUMPLINGS.
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