1470 calories
| ½ cup fine cereal | 1 tbs. butter |
| 1 cup milk (scalded) | ½ tsp. salt |
| ¼ cup molasses | ½ tsp. soda |
| 1 egg | ½ cup dates or other dried fruit |
Stir cereal into scalded milk and cook until mixture thickens, remove from fire, add rest of the ingredients except eggs. When mixture has cooled somewhat, add the lightly beaten eggs, turn into a buttered baking dish and steam 3 hours. This pudding may be made without steaming by cooking the cereal and milk in double boiler for 1 hour, then add rest of ingredients and bake 30 minutes.
Sauces for Puddings
Foamy Sauce
494-497 calories
| ½ cup powdered sugar | 1 tbs. sherry wine or 1 tbs. hot milk |
| ¼ cup butter | ¼ tsp. vanilla |
| ½ one egg yolk and 1 whole egg white | |
Cream butter and sugar (powdered sugar must be used in this recipe). Stir in the well-beaten yolk, add sherry and pour into saucepan over hot water; stir until thick and creamy, lift from hot water and cool as quickly as possible, fold in the stiffly beaten white of egg and serve over pudding at once.
Wine or Fruit Sauce
381-434 calories