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Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book

1884

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Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Molasses Sauce, — Mix one cup of molasses^ the juice of one lemonEccles Pie or one tablespoonful of vinegar^ half a salt- spoonful of salt^ and one tablespoonful of butter. Boil ten minutes and serve with plain rice or apple pudding. Plain Pudding Sauce, (Miss Ifammond.) — Melt o)ie heaping tablespoonful of butter; add two tablespoon- fuls of four, and one cup and a half of hot water. Cook as for drawn butter ; then add one cup and a half of brown sugar. Stir till the sugar is melted, add two tea- spoonfuls of lemon juice and a little nutmegPlain Pudding Sauce. The Boston Cook Book. 331 HOT PUDDINGS. Cottage Pudding. 2 heaping cups flour. 2 teaspoonf uls baking-powder. % teaspoonful salt. 1 egg. ^ cup sugar. 3 tablespoonf uls melted butter. 1 cup milkCottage Pudding. Mix the salt and baking-powder with the flour. Beat the egg, add the sugar, melted butter, and milk, and stir into the flour. Bake in a shallow dish. Serve with lemon^ wine^ OY foamy sauce, Dutch Apple Cake. This is used as a pudding (see page 86). It is easily prepared, attractive, and delicious, served with lemon sauce. Scalloped Apple. Mix half a cup of sugar and half a saltspoonful of cin- namon or the grated rind of half a lemon. Melt half a cup of butter, and stir it into one pint of soft bread crumbs; prepare three pints of sliced apples. Butter a pudding- dish, put in a layer of crumbs, then sliced apple, and sprinkle with sugar ; then another layer of crumbs, apple, and sugar until the materials are used. Have a thick layer of crumbs on the top. When the apples are not juicy, add half a cup of cold water; and if not tart apples, add the juice of half a lemon. Bake about an hour. Cover at first, to prevent burning. Serve with cream, Eipe ber- ries and other acid fruits may be used instead of apples, and oatmeal or cracked wheat mush in the place of bread crumbs. 332 The Boston Cook Booh ♦ Steamed Apple Pudding. {Mrs. S. M. Bailey.) Fill a two-quart granite pan two thirds full of sour apples cut into eighths, and add half a cup of water. Butter the edge of the pan and the inside of the cover. Cover with a biscuit crust, made of one pint of flour, tivo teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, and half a teas^joonful of salt ; wet with one scant cup of milk, just stiff enough to roll out. Cover closely and steam one hour, or cook on top of the stove half an hour, with a trivet under the pan to keep the apple from burning. Serve at once with lemon or molasses sauce. Put a large round plate over the pan ; invert them, leaving the crust on the plate with the apples at the top. Cut like a pie. The crust may be shortened, the apples sweetened with molasses, and then baked in the oven ; and it is called Pandowdy, Steamed Carrot Pudding. {Mr. Cole.) 3^ pound flour. 3^ pound chopped suet. ^2 pound currants. pound sugar. ^2 pound grated carrot. 3^ teaspoonful salt. Mix in the order given, and steam in a buttered mould three hours. Serve with wine sauce. Bread and Fruit Pudding. Steamed Apple Pudding