LEMON PUDDING
Grate half a loaf of bread, pour over a cupful of boiling milk, and cool. Add the grated peel of two lemons, half a cupful of butter beaten to a cream, powdered sugar to sweeten, and three eggs well-beaten. Fill a buttered baking-dish or small buttered cups and bake for twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Serve hot with any preferred sauce.
LEMON CUSTARD PUDDING
Make a pint of Lemon Jelly and add to it the beaten yolks of four eggs. When cool, but not set, fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs, mould, chill, and serve with sugar and cream.
NEW ENGLAND INDIAN PUDDING
Sift a cupful of corn-meal slowly into four cupfuls of boiling milk and cook in a double boiler for half an hour, stirring frequently. Take from the fire, add a scant cupful of molasses, four cupfuls of milk, one teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of butter, and one egg well-beaten. Pour into a deep earthen dish, and bake slowly for four hours. Serve hot with [Hard Sauce] flavored with vanilla.
ORANGE PUDDING
Peel, seed and quarter six oranges, put into a baking-dish and sprinkle with sugar. Thicken a quart of milk with two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch rubbed smooth with a little of it, add a pinch of salt, a teaspoonful of butter, and the yolks of three eggs beaten with half a cupful of sugar. Add a little grated orange peel, and cook until smooth and thick, stirring constantly. Pour the custard over the oranges, bake for twenty minutes, then cover with meringue made of the beaten whites of the eggs and two tablespoonfuls of sugar, sprinkle with sugar and bake until puffed and brown. Serve cold with cream.
PEACH PUDDING
Thicken three cupfuls of boiling milk with two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch rubbed smooth with a little cold milk. Cook until smooth and thick, stirring constantly, then take from the fire, add a tablespoonful of butter and the yolks of three eggs beaten to a cream with a cupful of sugar. Drain a can of peaches, put into a baking-dish, pour the custard over and bake for ten minutes, then cover with meringue and return to the oven until brown.