Beat up the eggs, taking out the treads (little white lumps). Pour the milk over the eggs, sweeten and flavour to taste, place in a greased pie-dish, and bake about 1 hour. If liked, a penny sponge cake cut in halves may be placed in the bottom of the pie-dish.
Derby Pudding. Time—2½ hours.
2 eggs, their weight in flour, weight of one egg in castor sugar, 3 oz. butter, 1 tablespoonful jam, small ½-teaspoonful carbonate of soda, 1 oz. glacé cherries or candied peel.
Butter a pudding-mould and ornament it with the cherries or candied peel. Cream the butter and sugar together, add the well-beaten eggs, mix the carbonate of soda and flour together and stir into the other ingredients; lastly add the jam and mix all together. Pour into the prepared mould and cover with a sheet of greased paper. Steam for 2 hours and serve hot with a sweet sauce over it.
Macaroni Pudding. Time—1 hour.
¼ lb. Naples macaroni, 2 oz. brown sugar, flavouring to taste, 1 pint milk, 1 egg, salt.
Break up the macaroni into small pieces, throw them into boiling water with plenty of salt. Boil about ½ hour, strain off the water, and put the macaroni into a greased pie-dish. Beat up the egg, add the sugar, flavouring and milk. Pour this on to the macaroni, mix all together, and bake about 25 minutes.
New Year Tartlets. Time—1 hour.
Enough rough puff pastry to line twelve patty-pans, 3 tablespoonfuls jam, 2 eggs, weight of 1 egg in butter, sugar and flour, ½ teaspoonful baking-powder, few drops flavouring.
Icing.—½ lb. loaf sugar, 1 gill water, few drops rose-water.