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1887

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Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
4 ounces semolina. If pint of milk, 2|- ounces of sugar, 4 well-beaten eggs, some sultana raisins, candied citron or lemon peel, and some fresh lemon-peelSemolina Pudding. Boil the fresh lemon-peel in the milk; sprinkle the semolina in by degrees ; stir carefully so as to keep the mixture very smooth. Boil a few minutes, stirring all the time. Move it off the fire; put in the sugar SWEETS. 117 and tlie 4 eggs. Have a buttered mould, decorated -with raisins, candied peels. Pour in the mixture and steam it for half an hour. Serve hot with a wine or fruit sauce, or cold with custard. Fruit sauce is made by melting any fruit jelly you may have over the fire, with a very small proportion of water. 372. — Buff Pudding. 1 pint of milk, 3 ounces of butter, 2 tablespoonfuls of flour, C ordinary-sized lumps of sugar, 1 pinch of saltBuff Pudding. Mix the flour by degrees to the milk with the salt ; boil it till quite thick ; then take it off the fire, and stir in the butter, sugar, and some finely grated lemon-peel. Let it stand till cold; beat in 3 eggs. Have a dish lined with paste ; pour in the mixture ; bake in a quick oven 20 minutes, and decorate with a few lumps of marmalade. Good hot, but better cold. 373. — Crumb Pudding. 11 tablespoonfuls of bread-crumbs, 1 pint of milk, 3 tablespoonfuls of sugar, 4 eggs, a little very finely chopped lemon-peel (or candied peel, if preferred), a few sultana raisins or currantsCrumb Pudding. Butter a pie-dish well, and strew in the raisins, etc. Beat the eggs, and mix them with the milk; add to it the bread-crumbs, sugar, lemon-peel. Pour it into a pie-dish, and bake it. T 148 WHOLESOME COOKERY. Turn out and serve with sifted sugar over, or with melted red or black currant jelly. 374. — De Grey Pudding. Beat half a pound of butter to a cream ; then beat in half a pound of sugar, then half a pound of flour, then 4 yolks of eggs, then some chopped candied fruits ; lastly, whisk 4 whites of eggsDe Grey Pudding to a stiff froth, and mix it up with the other ingredients. Have a well-buttered mould ; ornament it with candied fruits. Pour in the mixture and steam it for 3 hours. Serve hot, with a wine sauce. 375. — Apple Charlotte. Cut some cooking apples in very thin slices. Place some very thin slices of crumb of bread at the bottom of a pie-dish, then a layer of the apples, a few lumps of butter ; sprinkle with sugar. Fill the pie-dish with alternate layers of apple,, bread, butter, and sugar. Bake about an hour ; turn out of the dish, and serve hot or cold. 376. — Open Apple Tart. Peel and core some apples ; cut them up ; j)ut them in a saucepan, with a good-sized lump of butter, some finely chopped lemon-peel, and some sugarApple Charlotte. Stew till very soft and smooth. Beat up 1 or 2 eggs ; mix witli I SWEETS. 149 the above. Have a shallow dish lined with pastry ; put in the apple mixture, and bake. Very good hot and cold. 377. — Orange Jelly. Three-quarters of an ounce of gelatine, dissolved in 1 pint of water. Rub half a pound of sugar on the rinds of 5 oranges and 1 lemonOrange Jelly. Squeeze out the juice; boil it up with the sugar and water; strain it ; whisk it nearly cold, and put it in a mould to set.