- 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].