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365 desserts

1900

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Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
22. — Queen's Pudding. Soak i pt. of nice bread crumbs in i qt. of milk, yolks of 4 eggs, 1 cup of sugarCompote of Chestnuts, 2 tea- spoonfuls extract of lemon, butter the size of an egg; bake. When cold spread with jelly of any kind ; cover with the whites of the 4 eggs beaten to a stiff froth, with one small cup of sugar and a teaspoonful extract of lemon. Brown lightly in the oven. 23. — Orange Pancake. To one pt. of warm milk, add 1 tablespoon- ful of melted butter, 1 pt. of flour, 2 eggs beaten stiff, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and juice of 1 orange. Bake on griddle. Butter and sweeten. — From Good Housekeeping. 24. — Ginger Bread Pudding. One-half oz. treacle, y2 lb. flour, ^ lb. suet, 1 teaspoonful ginger, ^ pt. milk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful carbonate of sodaGinger Bread Pudding, 1 tea- spoonful extract of lemon. Mix the dry in- gredients, then add the egg, and the milk in which the soda has been dissolved, and boil in a mould for 2^ hours. 159 November. 25. — Arrowroot Charlotte. Two tablespoonfuls flour, 3 tablespoonfuls arrowroot, 1 qt. of milk, 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla; 3 or 4 stale sponge cakesArrowroot Charlotte. Line a mould with the cakes, cut thin, and sprinkled with sherry. Mix the flour and arrowroot with enough cold milk to make it smooth. Put the remainder of the milk into a sauce-pan, and stir in the mixture just before it boils ; boil a few minutes stirring all the time, then pour it boiling into the mould. Stand it aside until quite cold, turn it out of the mould, and spread it with jelly or jam. 26. — Corn Flour Meringue. One qt. of milk, 4 teaspoonfuls corn flour, 4 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls pounded white sugar, one tablespoonful jelly or jam, 3 tea- spoonfuls of vanillCorn Flour Meringuea. Heat the milk to boil- ing and pour it on the corn flour which should be previously mixed with a little cold milk; boil 15 minutes stirring all the time. Remove from the fire, and while still hot add gradually the yolks of the eggs beaten with the sugar, and flavored with the vanilla. Pour this into a buttered pudding-dish, and bake about 15 minutes, or until the custard 160 November* begins to set. Take it from the oven and heap upon it lightly and quickly a meringue, made of the whites of the eggs whipped to a stiff froth with a jelly or jam which must be added gradually. Return to the oven to brown slightly, and serve either hot or cold. Use currant jelly if the meringue is flavored with vanilla, strawberry with lemon. 27. — Thanksgiving Pudding. One pt. flour, y2 pint milk, 4 eggs, ^ lb. chopped suet, 1 Hb. raisins, 1 lb. currants, 1 cup of sugar, y2 cup of molasses, 1 teaspoonful yeast powder, spices, saltThanksgiving Pudding. Boil four hours. Serve with transparent sauce. Transparent Sauce. — A coffee cupful of water, a table- spoonful of butter, a coffee cupful white sugar, whites of 2 eggs, and flavor with lemon or vanilla. Put the sugar, water and butter into a double boiler, let it heat 10 minutes, stirring well ; let it cool, and beat the whites of the eggs into the cool sauce. 28.— White Jelly. One qt. of hot milk boiled with 5 table- spoonfuls of rice flour ; 1 cupful of powdered sugar rubbed with one tablespoonful of but- 161 November. ter, ]/2 a teaspoonful of salt, i teaspoonful vanilla. Beat all together and cool. Then add y2 pt. of whipped creamWhite Jelly. Serve with soft custard. — From Good Housekeeping. 29. — Fig Pudding. Fig Pudding