Strawberry Whip
- 2 cups strawberries
1 cup powdered sugar
2 egg whites
¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Crush the berries; add sugar and lemon juice. Beat eggs until stiff, and continue beating while adding strawberry mixture. Serve with [Soft Custard] or beaten cream.
Vanilla Charlotte Russe No. 1
- 2 cups cream
⅔ cup powdered sugar
3 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat cream until stiff; add sugar, flavoring, and egg whites, beaten until stiff. Line a mold with slices of sponge cake or lady fingers; fill with mixture. Chill and serve.
Caramel Charlotte Russe
Use rule for [Vanilla Charlotte Russe No. 1], substituting one cup caramelized sugar for the powdered sugar.
French Charlotte Russe
Add to [Vanilla Charlotte Russe No. 1] one dozen marshmallows finely chopped, one dozen almonds blanched and chopped, six walnuts chopped, two tablespoons candied cherries finely chopped, and one tablespoon brandy.
Strawberry Charlotte Russe
Crush two cups strawberries, add one cup sugar, and add to [Vanilla Charlotte Russe No. 1].
Apple Rice
- 8 apples
½ glass [Crab Apple Jelly]
½ cup seeded raisins
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup hot cooked rice
2 cups milk
3 egg yolks
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Pare and core the apples. Arrange in baking dish, fill apples with jelly, and surround with rice, mixed with hot milk, egg yolks, butter, raisins and flavoring. Cook in oven until apples are tender. Remove from oven and cover with a meringue. Serve hot or cold.
Imperial Chocolate Pudding
- 4 tablespoons cornstarch
2 cups milk
¼ cup sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
2 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate
2 tablespoons hot water
whites of 2 eggs
¼ teaspoon vanilla
Mix cornstarch, sugar, salt and milk; melt chocolate; add water, cornstarch mixture, and cook in double boiler thirty minutes; cool; add well-beaten egg whites, flavoring, and mold. Chill and serve with sugar and cream.
Junket
- 1 quart milk
1 junket tablet
¼ cup sugar
2 tablespoons wine, or
1 teaspoon vanilla
⅛ teaspoon salt
Dissolve junket tablet in cold water. Heat the milk until lukewarm; add junket tablet, sugar and flavoring; fill frappé glasses, let stand in warm room until set; then chill and serve.
Roman Pudding
- 1 tablespoon gelatine
1 tablespoon cold water
¼ cup boiling water
¼ cup powdered sugar
3 cups cream
¼ cup Madeira wine
¼ teaspoon salt
1 can preserved figs
1 cup beaten cream
Soak gelatine in cold water; dissolve in boiling water; add wine and sugar. Stir until mixture thickens. Carefully fold in the whip from cream. Mold, chill, and serve with figs and beaten cream.
Snow Pudding
- 2 tablespoons granulated gelatine
2 tablespoons cold water
½ cup boiling water
1 cup sugar
⅓ cup lemon juice
3 egg whites
Soak the gelatine in cold water; dissolve in boiling water; add sugar and lemon juice. Stir till mixture thickens, then add the beaten whites of eggs and continue beating until stiff enough to drop. Mold, chill, and serve with [Custard Sauce].
Compote of Figs
- 1 pound pulled figs
2 cups water
¼ cup sugar
4 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup cream
¼ cup powdered sugar
Soak figs in water, then press into shape. Mix sugar and water, boil until sirupy, add lemon juice. Arrange figs on serving dish; cover with sirup; garnish with sweetened cream, beaten until stiff, pressed through pastry bag and tube.
Pineapple Pudding
- pulp from one pineapple
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
½ teaspoon salt
Mix sugar, eggs and pineapple; bake in slow oven until set. Unmold, garnish with beaten cream, the leaves of the pineapple and cherries.
HOT DESSERTS
Duchess Pudding
- 1 cup scalded milk
¾ cup soft bread crumbs
½ cup grated cocoanut
2 egg yolks
½ cup cocoa
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 egg whites
¼ teaspoon salt
Soak bread in scalded milk until soft. Add cocoanut, sugar, cocoa, lemon juice and salt; beat well; add yolks of eggs slightly beaten, and cut and fold in the well-beaten whites. Turn into well-buttered pudding dish and bake in a moderate oven 30 minutes. Serve hot or cold.
Quince Pudding
- 6 quinces
1 cup sugar
¼ cup lemon juice
5 egg yolks
1 cup cream
3 egg whites
Wash quinces, cut in quarters, remove seeds and chop; add lemon juice. Beat yolks of eggs; add sugar and cream; when blended, add beaten whites and quince mixture. Pour into buttered pudding dish and bake until firm. Serve hot or cold.
Peach Pudding
- 1 cup flour
2 cups fine bread crumbs
½ cup chopped nuts
3 eggs
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup sugar
2 cups peaches
¼ teaspoon salt
Mix all ingredients, beat well, pour into buttered dish, and steam two hours. Serve with cream.
Baked Chocolate Soufflé
- 2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
¾ cup milk
½ cup sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons hot water
3 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate
yolks of 3 eggs
whites of 3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Melt butter; add flour; when smooth, add milk; cook five minutes; add sugar and salt. Melt chocolate; add hot water and flour mixture; cook five minutes; cool; add yolks of eggs beaten well; cut and fold in the well-beaten whites. Flavor; bake in a buttered baking dish in a moderate oven twenty to thirty minutes. Serve immediately with sugar and cream, or beaten cream, or butter and sugar sauce.
CHOCOLATE NUT PUDDING
Plate V. For Receipt see [page 227]
Chocolate Bread Pudding
- ¾ cup bread crumbs
2 cups scalded milk
3 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate melted
2 eggs
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon vanilla
¼ cup cold milk
¾ cup sugar
Mix all ingredients in the order given. Pour into a buttered baking dish, set into a pan of hot water, and bake one hour in a moderate oven; stir twice during the baking to keep chocolate from rising to the top.
Chocolate Raisin Pudding
- 1½ cups fine cracker crumbs
2½ cups milk
⅓ cup molasses
¼ teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup seeded raisins
½ cup cocoa, or
2 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate melted
Soak cracker crumbs in milk, add remaining ingredients, turn into a buttered pudding dish, and steam four hours. Serve either hot or cold with [Cream Sauce].
CHOCOLATE AND RICE PUDDING
Plate VI. For Receipt see [page 227]
Chocolate Balls
- ⅓ cup butter
1 cup sugar
½ cup milk
2 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate grated
2¼ cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
4 egg whites
¼ teaspoon salt
Cream butter; add chocolate and sugar, flour in which baking powder and salt have been sifted, and milk; beat well, cut and fold in beaten whites of eggs. Pour into individual molds or popover cups and steam forty minutes. Serve with [Chocolate Sauce].
Chocolate Nut Pudding
- 1 cup soft bread crumbs
2 cups scalded milk
1 cup chopped nuts
½ teaspoon salt
2 egg yolks
¾ cup sugar
juice and grated rind of 1 lemon
2 egg whites beaten until stiff
2 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate melted
Mix first seven ingredients; when well blended, cut and fold in the whites of eggs; pour into individual molds, and bake twenty to thirty minutes. Serve hot with [Cream] or [Fruit Sauce]. See colored illustration, [Plate V], opposite p. 226.
COCOA FRUIT PUDDING
Plate VII. For Receipt see [page 228]
Chocolate and Rice Pudding
- 4 tablespoons rice
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ cup beaten cream
½ cup sugar
¼ cup Lowney’s Always Ready Chocolate Powder, or
2 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate
¾ cup seeded raisins
2 egg whites
Soak rice in milk one half hour; add salt and cook in double boiler until rice is tender. Mix butter, sugar, chocolate, raisins and vanilla; add cooked rice, cream and beaten whites. Fill buttered baking dish, cover with a meringue, brown in a moderate oven, and serve either hot or cold.
Milk may be substituted for the beaten cream if a less rich pudding is desired. See colored illustration, [Plate VI], opposite p. 226.
CHOCOLATE CREAM PIE
Plate VIII. For Receipt see [page 252]
Cocoa Fruit Pudding
- ½ cup Lowney’s Cocoa
⅔ cup beef suet
1 cup figs finely chopped
2¼ cups soft bread crumbs
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
⅓ cup milk
½ teaspoon salt
Chop suet, figs and bread crumbs in meat chopper. Add remaining ingredients, and steam three hours. Serve with [Hot Chocolate Sauce], or cream sweetened and flavored. See colored illustration, [Plate VII], opposite p. 227.
Steamed Chocolate Nut Pudding
- 2 tablespoons sugar
½ cup flour
4 tablespoons Lowney’s Premium Chocolate grated
½ cup milk
5 egg yolks
½ cup sugar
1 cup finely chopped nuts
5 egg whites
1 tablespoon butter
¼ teaspoon salt
Mix first five ingredients and boil two minutes. Beat yolks of eggs until lemon-colored and thick; add sugar, beat five minutes; add nuts, then add to chocolate mixture. When well blended, cut and fold in the whites of eggs beaten until stiff. Pour into buttered mold and steam one and one half hours. Remove from mold and serve with [Hard Sauce].
Steamed Chocolate Pudding
- 2 tablespoons butter
¼ cup flour
¼ cup Lowney’s Always Ready Chocolate Powder
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup milk
5 egg yolks
¾ cup sugar
½ cup finely chopped almonds
5 egg whites
Melt butter; add flour, chocolate, salt and milk; cook five minutes. Beat egg yolks until lemon-colored and thick; add sugar and almonds; when well blended, add chocolate mixture, and cut and fold in the beaten whites. Pour into a buttered mold, and steam one hour. Serve immediately with sugar and cream.
Baked Apple Dumpling
- 2 cups flour
2 tablespoons lard
2 tablespoons butter
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
¼ cup sugar
¼ cup water
8 apples cored
cinnamon and nutmeg
Sift flour, baking powder and salt; work in lard and butter; when well mixed, add water. Cut paste in eight rounds, place apple in center of round, fill cavity with sugar and flavoring. Draw paste around apple; place in baking pan rough side down. Bake forty-five minutes. Serve with [Lemon] or Molasses Sauce.
Apple Sponge
- ¼ cup sugar
¼ cup milk
2 eggs
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
5 sliced apples
½ teaspoon salt
Beat eggs; add sugar, flour in which baking powder has been sifted, and milk. Beat well; add apples; pour into buttered baking dish and bake in a moderate oven one hour. Serve with [Italian Sauce].
Baked Apples No. 1.
Remove the core from eight apples of uniform size. Place in baking dish, add one fourth cup water, and baste frequently, during baking, with sugar and water.
Baked Apples No. 2
Core eight apples, arrange in baking dish, fill cavities with butter and sugar, bake until tender, basting with sugar and water. When done, arrange in serving dish; sprinkle with granulated sugar.
Apple Flame
- 8 apples
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
raspberry jam
rum or brandy
1 cup beaten cream
Pare and core the apples; boil sugar and water together ten minutes; arrange apples in buttered baking dish two inches apart; add sirup; cover and bake until apples are tender. Be careful to preserve shape of apples.
Remove from dish; boil sirup until thick; fill cavities with jam, pour sirup around them, and just before sending to table pour over them brandy or rum. Light and serve.
Apple Flamingo
- 8 apples (red)
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
1 cup cream
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons orange juice
grated rind one half lemon
grated rind one half orange
Wipe apples; arrange in baking dish; add sugar and water, and cook until tender, turning so that all sides may be evenly cooked. Be sure and preserve the shape.
Remove skin in a way to leave bright coloring on the apple.
Boil sirup until thick, add fruit juice and rind, pour around apples, and garnish with beaten cream.
Apple Soufflé
- 3 cups quartered apples
2 tablespoons butter
¾ cup sugar
3 egg yolks
6 egg whites
nutmeg and lemon juice
Steam apples; add butter, sugar, yolks of eggs and flavoring. Cool, cut and fold in beaten whites, turn into buttered pudding dish, and bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with sugar and cream.
Scalloped Apple
- 1 cup sugar
½ teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons lemon juice
grated rind of one lemon
½ cup butter
1½ cups bread crumbs from center of loaf
4 cups sliced apples
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup water
Arrange crumbs and apples in layers, in a buttered pudding dish, having crumbs on the top layer. Sprinkle each layer with sugar and cinnamon and dot with butter; add lemon juice, lemon rind and water, just before sprinkling on the last layer. Bake in slow oven one hour.
Apple Dumpling
- 4 cups sliced apples
½ cup water
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup sugar
1 cup milk
few gratings lemon rind
Mix and sift dry ingredients except sugar. Add milk. Fill a buttered pudding dish with apples, add sugar, water, lemon rind, cover with flour mixture, and steam one and one half hours. Serve with [Lemon Sauce].
Apple Nests
- 8 apples
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups milk
3 egg yolks
3 egg whites
Arrange cored and pared apples in a buttered baking dish. Mix sugar, flour, milk; add yolks of eggs; when well blended, the well-beaten whites. Pour this mixture over apples and bake in a moderate oven until apples are tender.
Brown Betty
Prepare the same as [Scalloped Apple], adding one half teaspoon cloves, one half teaspoon allspice, one half cup molasses, and one cup raisins seeded and chopped. Bake in slow oven one hour.
Apple Charlotte
- 8 slices of bread
½ cup butter
6 apples
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
¼ cup chopped almonds
1 tablespoon butter
Dip bread in melted butter; butter mold; cut bread into strips an inch wide and the height of the mold. Line bottom and sides of mold with bread. Pare and cut up apples; add sugar, water and lemon juice; cook until apples are soft. Add chopped almonds, one tablespoon butter; pour into lined mold, cover with slices of buttered bread, and bake thirty minutes. Serve with [Lemon Sauce] or [Hard Sauce].
Apples on a Bed of Rice
- 1 cup cooked rice
8 apples
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
2 tablespoons lemon juice
strawberry jam
Press rice into charlotte russe mold; reheat in steamer. Pare and core apples; cook in sirup made of sugar and water until tender. Remove apples; boil sirup until thick; unmold rice; arrange apples around rice, fill cavities in apples with jam, and pour sauce around them.
Oranges on a Bed of Rice
Prepare in the same way as Apples on a Bed of Rice, except quarter oranges and omit jam.
Apple Batter Pudding
- 1 cup milk
1 cup flour
2 eggs
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups quartered apples
2 tablespoons lemon juice
¼ cup sugar
Mix sugar, salt, flour, eggs and milk. When smooth, add apples; pour into buttered baking dish, and bake in a moderate oven one hour. Serve immediately with Wine Sauce.
Peach Batter Pudding
Follow the rule for making [Apple Batter Pudding], substituting peaches for the apples.
College Pudding
- ½ cup butter
1½ cups sugar
4 eggs
½ cup strained [Apple Sauce]
¼ teaspoon salt
rind and juice of one lemon
Mix ingredients in order given. Line a pudding dish with [Plain Paste], fill with apple mixture, and bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with butter and sugar.
Apple Indian
- 2 cups quartered apples
½ cup molasses
½ cup brown sugar
4 cups milk
¼ cup Indian meal
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
cinnamon and nutmeg
Scald milk; pour on to Indian meal; add remaining ingredients; pour into buttered baking dish, and cook in slow oven four hours, keeping dish covered until the last hour, stirring occasionally.
Stewed Apples
Pare and core eight apples. Arrange in baking dish; fill cavities with [Apple Jelly] and chopped raisins. Cook until tender, basting with hot water, sugar and lemon juice. Ten minutes before removing from oven, spear all over with slivers of blanched almonds.
Vanilla Soufflé
- ¼ cup butter
⅓ cup flour
1 cup milk
4 eggs
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
¼ teaspoon salt
Make a white sauce with flour, butter, salt and milk. Beat yolks of eggs; add sugar and white sauce. Cut and fold in the well-beaten whites. Bake in individual ramekin dishes in a moderate oven, twenty to thirty minutes. Serve immediately with [Orange] or [Sherry Sauce].
Orange Soufflé
- 3 egg yolks
3 egg whites
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
rind of one half orange
1 tablespoon orange juice
½ tablespoon lemon juice
¼ teaspoon salt
Beat yolks until lemon-colored and thick. Add sugar, fruit juice and rind. Carefully fold in beaten whites. Pour into buttered dish, and bake fifteen to twenty minutes in moderate oven. Serve with [Strawberry Sauce].
Bread Pudding
- 2 cups bread crumbs
4 cups milk
3 eggs
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
cinnamon and nutmeg
Soak bread in milk; add beaten eggs and remaining ingredients. Bake one hour. Serve with [hard sauce].
Bread Queen
Use rule for [Bread Pudding], using whites of four eggs for meringue, and the yolks in the pudding instead of the three eggs. Before spreading on meringue, cover pudding with a layer of jam. Brown meringue slightly in the oven, and serve pudding hot or cold with cream.
Cracker Queen
Substitute one and one half cups cracker crumbs for bread crumbs in [Bread Pudding], and add one cup seeded raisins cut in small pieces. Bake the same as [Bread Pudding].
Buttered Bread Pudding
Butter twelve slices of bread; arrange in baking dish. Cover with four cups milk, four slightly beaten eggs, three fourths cup sugar, one half teaspoon salt, and the grated rind and juice of one lemon. Bake one and one half hours in slow oven. Serve with [Hard Sauce].
Cocoanut Pudding
Use rule for [Buttered Bread Pudding], sprinkle each bread layer with shredded cocoanut and chopped and seeded raisins. Serve with [hard sauce].
Steamed Blueberry Dumpling
- 4 cups blueberries
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
¾ cup milk
Mix flour, baking powder and salt; add butter, mix until mealy; add milk. Put sugar, berries and vinegar in bottom of buttered baking dish. Cover with flour mixture and steam forty-five minutes. Serve in dish in which it is cooked.
Raspberry Dumpling
Prepare in the same way as [Steamed Blueberry Dumpling], using four cups of raspberries instead of blueberries.
Blackberry Dumpling
Substitute blackberries for blueberries, and proceed as for [Steamed Blueberry Dumpling].
Cherry Duff
Substitute two quarts cherries, in rule for making [Blueberry Dumpling].
Peach Duff
Use rule for [Blueberry Dumpling], substituting one quart peaches for blueberries.
Fruit Snowballs
Use receipt for making [Snow Puffs]. When done, sprinkle with powdered sugar and garnish with [Cherry Sauce].
Steamed Rice Pudding
- 1 cup rice
1½ teaspoons salt
8 cups cold water
Cook in steamer until water is absorbed and each kernel is separated. The time depends upon the age of the rice.
Caramel Rice Pudding
- 1 cup rice
6 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
grated rind of one half orange
Cook rice in milk, in double boiler, two hours; then add salt, eggs slightly beaten, and orange rind. Caramelize the sugar. When a golden brown liquid, pour into a hot pudding mold, coating the whole inner surface. Add rice mixture, cover and cook in oven in a pan of water twenty minutes. Remove from oven, let stand five minutes, turn on serving dish, and serve with [Soft Custard].
Snow Puffs
- ½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
½ cup milk
2½ cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
4 egg whites
½ teaspoon salt
Cream butter; add sugar, flour, baking powder and salt alternately with milk. Beat well; add the stiffly beaten whites; steam forty-five minutes in buttered popover cups. Serve with [Strawberry Sauce].
Blueberry Puffs
Use rule for [Snow Puffs] and serve surrounded by a sauce made by cooking two cups blueberries and one cup sugar together twenty minutes.
Cottage Pudding
- 1 cup sugar
¼ cup butter
2 eggs
1 cup milk
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
Cream butter and sugar together; add yolks of eggs beaten until thick, flour in which baking powder and salt have been sifted, alternately with milk; beat well and add the well-beaten whites. Pour into a well-buttered pudding dish. Bake forty-five minutes. Serve with [Lemon], [Vanilla], or Wine Sauce.
Steamed Cottage Pudding
Prepare the same as [Cottage Pudding]. Pour into buttered mold; steam one and one half hours. Serve with [Lemon] or [Strawberry Sauce].
Indian Pudding, Steamed
- 1 cup corn meal
⅓ cup sour milk
½ cup molasses
⅓ cup chopped suet
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
few grains ginger
Mix soda with sour milk, add other ingredients, pour into buttered mold, and steam four hours. Serve with Molasses Sauce.
Baked Indian Pudding
- 6 cups milk
¼ cup corn meal
¼ cup molasses
1 tablespoon butter
½ teaspoon salt
few grains ginger
Scald one pint of milk with corn meal and cook twenty minutes; add remaining milk and rest of ingredients. Pour into deep earthen dish and bake, set in a pan of hot water, in a slow oven, four hours. The afternoon fire is the one best suited for cooking this pudding.
Indian Rice Pudding
- 4 cups milk
¼ cup rice
½ cup molasses
2 tablespoons butter
½ teaspoon ginger
¼ teaspoon salt
Mix ingredients in the order given, pour into deep baking dish, set in a pan of hot water, and bake two hours. Stir once during cooking.
Indian Rice with Apples
To [Indian Rice Pudding], add two cups pared and quartered apples.
Indian Tapioca Pudding
- ½ cup pearl tapioca
6 cups scalded milk
¼ cup Indian meal
1 cup molasses
¼ cup butter
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups cold milk
Soak tapioca in cold water over night. Cook Indian meal and scalded milk in double boiler twenty minutes; add tapioca, molasses, butter, salt. Pour into buttered baking dish; cook two hours in slow oven.
At the end of the first hour, add the cold milk. Serve hot with butter or cream.
Rice Pudding
- ½ cup rice
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon nutmeg
4 tablespoons sugar
½ cup seeded raisins
4 cups hot milk
2 cups cold milk
Mix first six ingredients; pour into buttered pudding dish; cook in a slow oven two hours, stirring occasionally the first hour. At the end of two hours add the cold milk and cook half an hour longer.
Serve with sugar and cream.
Christmas Plum Pudding
- 2 cups soft bread crumbs
2 cups chopped suet
1 cup chopped raisins
1 cup chopped citron
1 cup cleaned currants
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon nutmeg
6 eggs
½ cup brandy
½ tablespoon lemon rind
Mix ingredients; pour into buttered mold; cover and steam four hours; bake in oven one half hour. Serve with Wine Sauce.
Graham Plum Pudding
- 1½ cups graham flour
1 cup molasses
½ cup milk
1 cup seeded raisins
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon cloves
1 egg
½ teaspoon soda
2 tablespoons butter
Beat egg; add liquids, flour in which soda has been sifted, fruit, spices and melted butter. Pour into buttered baking powder tins and steam four hours. Serve with [Brown Sugar Sauce].
Steamed Fig Pudding
- 1 cup chopped figs
½ cup chopped suet
3 eggs
2¼ cups soft bread crumbs
⅓ cup milk
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Cover bread crumbs with milk. Chop figs and suet together, add other ingredients, pour in buttered melon mold and steam from three and one half to four hours. Serve with [Stirling Sauce].
Date Pudding
Use rule for [Fig Pudding], adding one cup each chopped dates and shredded almonds, and omit figs.
Roly Poly Pudding
Roll pastry or a baking-powder biscuit dough very thin, about one eighth of an inch in thickness, spread with jam, blackberry, black currant, or raspberry. Roll like a jelly roll, press, and close the ends as tight as possible. Tie in a floured cloth, and cook in boiling water two hours, or steam in steamer one hour. Remove from cloth and serve on hot platter with [Foamy Sauce].
Cream Croquettes
- 2 cups milk scalded
4 tablespoons cornstarch
¼ cup cold milk
¾ cup sugar
2 eggs
½ cup chopped almonds
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix cornstarch and cold milk, add hot milk, and cook in double boiler until mixture thickens. Add eggs well beaten, sugar, almonds and vanilla. Cook two minutes. Pour into shallow pan; chill; cut into squares or rounds; dip in crumbs, egg and crumbs, fry in hot fat. Drain on brown paper, roll in powdered sugar, and serve. Serve with [Lemon Sauce].
English Pudding
- ½ cup butter
1 cup seeded raisins
1 cup molasses
¾ cup milk
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
½ teaspoon cloves
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon mace
3-¾ cups flour
Cream butter; add remaining ingredients; pour into buttered mold; steam four hours. Serve with [Brandy Sauce] or [Foamy Sauce].