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To Make the Mixture. — Grate the rind off the lemon and rub it into the sugar. Cream the butter in a basin and add the lemon sugar to it. Add one egg and half the crumbs and beat well, then the second egg and the remainder of the crumbs. Strain in the lemon juice, add the baking powder free from lumps, and mix again. Put this mixture into the prepared pie dish, put a few leaves or fancy-shaped pieces of pastry on the top, and bake in a moderate oven until nicely browned and thoroughly cooked. Sprinkle with sugar before serving. Notes. — If liked, a little jam may be put at the bottom of the dish before pouring in the mixture. If preferred, the pudding may be made on a flat dish instead of a pie dish. Time to bake, £ to £ hour. Sufficient for 3 or 4 persons. Probable cost, 8 d. 1840, 3 sponge cakes. 2 table-sps. jam. 3 table-sps. wine or fruit syrup. Marlborough Pudding 2 oz. butter. 2 oz. sugar, 2 oz. sugar. 2 eggs. A few drops vanilla. Split the sponge cakes, spread them with jam, cut them in pieces, and lay them in a greased pie dish. Pour over them the wine or fruit syrup and let them soak. Meanwhile cream the butter and sugar in a basin, add the yolks of eggs one at a time, then the flavouring, and lastly the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Pour this mixture over the sponge cakes and bake in a moderate oven until set and lightly browned. Sprinkle with sugar and serve hot. Note. — If liked, the pie dish may be lined with pastry. Time to bake, about f hour. Sufficient for 4 or 5 persons. Probable cost. 1s. 1841. Marmalade Pudding (Baked) £ lb. flour. | lb. rice flour. 3 oz. sugar. 2 oz. butter. 1 tea-sp. baking powder 2 table-sps. marmalade. A little milk. 1 egg. A pinch of salt. Sieve all the dry ingredients into a basin and rub in the butter until free from lumps. Make a well in the centre, add the egg well beaten, the marmalade and enough milk to make a softish paste. Pour the mixture into greased dariole moulds, not filling them more than three-quarters full, and bake in a moderate oven until well risen and firm to the touch. When ready, turn out, and serve with lemon, marmalade, or custard sauce (see Sauces). Time to bake, 20 minutes. Sufficient for 3 or 4 persons. Probable cost, 8d. 1842. Marrow Pudding 1 tea-cupful breadcrumbs. 1 pt. milk. 4 oz. beef marrow. 2 eggs. 2 oz. sugar. A pinch of nutmeg. A pinch of cinnamon. 1 oz. currants. 1 oz. stoned raisins. A little pastry. Put the bread-crumbs into a basin, boil the milk and pour it over them. Cover the basin with a plate, and allow this to stand for half an hour. Meanwhile edge a pie dish with pastry according to directions given on p. 409, and decorate it neatly. When the bread-crumbs are thoroughly soaked, add to them the marrow finely shred, the sugar, fruit, spice, and yolks of eggs, mix all together, and, lastly, stir in the whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Pour this mixture into the pre- Eared pie dish, and bake in a good oven until nicely rowned and firm to the touch. Sprinkle with sugar before serving. Note. — Cherries or candied peel and almonds may be used instead of the currants and raisins. Time to bake, 20 to 30 minutes. Sufficient for 4 or 5 persons. Probable cost, 9d. 1843. Mimosa Puddings 6 oz. bread-crumbs. 2 eggs. 3 oz. butter. 3 oz. castor sugar. 1 oz. citron peel, i tea-sp. orange-flower water.