Pie-plant, cut up in small pieces with plenty of sugar, is fine made in this manner.
BREAD AND b.u.t.tER PUDDING. No. 2.
Place a layer of stale bread, rolled fine, in the bottom of a pudding-dish, then a layer of any kind of fruit; sprinkle on a little sugar, then another layer of bread crumbs and of fruit; and so on until the dish is full, the top layer being crumbs. Make a custard as for pies, add a pint of milk and mix. Pour it over the top of the pudding and bake until the fruit is cooked.
Stale cake, crumbed fine, in place of bread, is an improvement.
COLD BERRY PUDDING.
Take rather stale bread--baker"s bread or light home-made--cut in thin slices and spread with b.u.t.ter. Add a very little water and a little sugar to one quart or more of huckleberries and blackberries, or the former alone. Stew a few minutes until juicy; put a layer of b.u.t.tered bread in your b.u.t.tered pudding-dish, then a layer of stewed berries while hot and so on until full; lastly, a covering of stewed berries.
It may be improved with a rather soft frosting over the top. To be eaten cold with thick cream and sugar.
APPLE TAPIOCA PUDDING.
Put one teacupful of tapioca and one teaspoonful of salt into one pint and a half of water, and let it stand several hours where it will be quite warm, but not cook; peel six tart apples, take out the cores, fill them with sugar, in which is grated a little nutmeg and lemon peel, and put them in a pudding-dish; over these pour the tapioca, first mixing with it one teaspoonful of melted b.u.t.ter and a cupful of cold milk, and half a cupful of sugar; bake one hour; eat with sauce.
When fresh fruits are in season, this pudding is exceedingly nice, with damsons, plums, red currants, gooseberries or apples; when made with these, the pudding must be thickly sprinkled over with sifted sugar.
Canned or fresh peaches may be used in place of apples in the same manner, moistening the tapioca with the juice of the canned peaches in place of the cold milk. Very nice when quite cool to serve with sugar and cream.
APPLE AND BROWN-BREAD PUDDING.
Take a pint of brown bread crumbs, a pint bowl of chopped apples, mix; add two-thirds of a cupful of finely-chopped suet, a cupful of raisins, one egg, a tablespoonful of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt. Mix with half a pint of milk, and boil in b.u.t.tered molds about two hours. Serve with sauce flavored with lemon.
APPLE-PUFF PUDDING.
Put half a pound of flour into a basin, sprinkle in a little salt, stir in gradually a pint of milk; when quite smooth add three eggs; b.u.t.ter a pie-dish, pour in the batter; take three-quarters of a pound of apples, seed and cut in slices, and put in the batter; place bits of b.u.t.ter over the top; bake three-quarters of an hour; when done, sprinkle sugar over the top and serve hot.
PLAIN BREAD PUDDING, BAKED.
Break up about a pint of stale bread after cutting off the crust, pour over it a quart of boiling milk; add to this a piece of b.u.t.ter the size of a small egg; cover the dish tight and let it stand until cool; then with a spoon mash it until fine, adding a teaspoonful of cinnamon and one of nutmeg grated, half a cupful of sugar and one-quarter of a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little hot water. Beat up four eggs very light and add last. Turn all into a well-b.u.t.tered pudding-dish and bake three-quarters of an hour. Serve it warm with hard sauce.
This recipe may be steamed or boiled; very nice either way.
SUPERIOR BREAD PUDDINGS.
One and one-half cupfuls of white sugar, two cupfuls of fine, dry bread crumbs, five eggs, one tablespoonful of b.u.t.ter, vanilla, rose-water or lemon flavoring, one quart of fresh rich milk and half a cupful of jelly or jam. Rub the b.u.t.ter into a cupful of sugar; beat the yolks very light, and stir these together to a cream. The bread crumbs soaked in milk come next, then the flavoring. Bake in a b.u.t.tered pudding-dish--a large one and but two-thirds full--until the custard is "set." Draw to the mouth of the oven, spread over with jam or other nice fruit conserve. Cover this with a meringue made of the whipped whites and half a cupful of sugar. Shut the oven and bake until the meringue begins to color. Eat cold with cream. In strawberry season, subst.i.tute a pint of fresh fruit for preserves. It is then delicious. Serve with any warm sauce.
BOILED BREAD PUDDING.
To one quart of bread crumbs soaked soft in a cup of hot milk, add one cupful of mola.s.ses, one cupful of fruit or chopped raisins, one teaspoonful each of spices, one tablespoonful of b.u.t.ter, a teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of soda, about a cupful of flour sifted; boil or steam three hours. Serve with sweet sauce.
ALMOND PUDDING. No. 1.
Put two quarts of milk into a double boiler; stir into it two heaping tablespoonfuls of sifted flour that has been stirred to a cream, with a little of the milk. When it boils, care should be taken that it does not burn; when cooked, take from the fire and let it cool. Take the skins off from two pounds of sweet almonds, pound them fine, stir them into the milk; add a teaspoonful of salt, a cupful of sugar, flavoring and six well-beaten eggs, the yolks and whites beaten separately. Put bits of b.u.t.ter over the top. Bake one hour. A gill of brandy or wine improves it.
ALMOND PUDDING. No. 2.
Steep four ounces of crumbs of bread, sliced, in one and one-half pints of cream, or grate the bread; then beat half a pound of blanched almonds very fine till they become a paste, with two teaspoonfuls of orange-flower water; beat up the yolks of eight eggs and the whites of four; mix all well together; put in a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar and stir in three or four ounces of melted b.u.t.ter; put it over the fire, stirring it until it is thick; lay a sheet of paper at the bottom of a dish and pour in the ingredients; bake half an hour. Use the remaining four whites of eggs for a meringue for the top.
BATTER PUDDING, BAKED.
Four eggs, the yolks and whites beaten separately, one pint of milk, one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of baking powder, two cupfuls of sifted flour. Put the whites of the eggs in last. Bake in an earthen dish that can be set on the table. Bake forty-five minutes; serve with rich sauce.
BOILED BATTER PUDDING.
Sift together a pint of flour and a teaspoonful of baking powder into a deep dish, sprinkle in a little salt, adding also a tablespoonful of melted b.u.t.ter. Stir into this gradually a pint of milk; when quite smooth, add four eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately. Now add enough more flour to make a _very stiff_ batter. If liked, any kind of fruit may be stirred into this; a pint of berries or sliced fruit.
Boil two hours. Serve with cream and sugar, wine sauce, or any sweet sauce.
CUSTARD PUDDING. No. 1.
Take five tablespoonfuls out of a quart of cream or rich milk and mix them with two large spoonfuls of fine flour. Set the rest of the milk to boil, flavoring it with bitter almonds broken up. When it has boiled hard, take it off, strain it and stir it in the cold milk and flour. Set it away to cool and beat well eight yolks and four whites of eggs; add them to the milk and stir in, at the last, a gla.s.s of brandy or white wine, a teaspoonful of powdered nutmeg and half a cupful of sugar. b.u.t.ter a large bowl or mold; pour in the mixture; tie a cloth tightly over it; put it into a pot of boiling water and boil it two hours, replenishing the pot with hot water from a tea-kettle.
When the pudding is done, let it get cool before you turn it out. Eat it with b.u.t.ter and sugar stirred together to a cream and flavored with lemon juice or orange.
CUSTARD PUDDING. No. 2.
Pour one quart of milk in a deep pan and let the pan stand in a kettle of boiling water, while you beat to a cream eight eggs and six tablespoonfuls of fine sugar and a teaspoon of flour; then stir the eggs and sugar into the milk and continue stirring until it begins to thicken; then remove the pan from the boiling water, sc.r.a.pe down the sides, stir to the bottom until it begins to cool, add a tablespoonful of peach-water, or any other flavor you may prefer, pour into little cups and, when cold, serve.
CUSTARD PUDDINGS.
The recipe for COMMON CUSTARD, with the addition of chocolate grated, banana, or pineapple or cocoanut, makes successfully those different kinds of puddings.
APPLE CUSTARD PUDDINGS.
Put a quart of pared and quartered apples into a stewpan, with half a cupful of water and cook them until they are soft. Remove from the fire and add half a cupful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of b.u.t.ter and the grated rind and the juice of a lemon. Have ready mixed two cupfuls of grated bread crumbs and two tablespoonfuls of flour; add this also to the apple mixture, after which stir in two well-beaten eggs. Turn all into a well-b.u.t.tered pudding-dish and bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with sugar and cream or hard sweet sauce.
CREAM PUDDING.
Beat the yolks and whites of six eggs well and stir them into one pint of flour, one pint of milk, a little salt and a bit of soda dissolved in a little water, the grated rind of a lemon and three spoonfuls of sugar; just before baking stir in one pint of cream and bake in a b.u.t.tered dish. Eat with cream.