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1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
New Bedford Corn Pudding. — Grate the corn from twelve ears ; mix with it 4 table-spoonfuls of caster sugar, 1 tea- spoonful of salt, 1| pints of milk, and four well-beaten eggs✪ New Bedford Corn Pudding. Butter a pie-dish and pour the mixture into it. Bake in a moderate oven for two hours, and serve hot. If the corn is old and dry, lqt. of milk should be used. Pickled Green Corn. - (1) Procure the corn while unripe and about the size of the little finger ; peel off the leaves, and lay the ears in a pickle-jar, with a few small pieces of basilicum and a few bay-leaves mixed in with them. Put a sufficient quantity of vinegar✪ Pickled Green Corn in a saucepan over the fire to cover, and when boiling pour it over the corn. When the vinegar has cooled, tie a piece of wet parchment or thick paper over the top of the jar, and leave for a fortnight or so before using the pickle. (2) Put the corn into a saucepan of boiling salted water, and boil it for a minute ; then drain, and pack it in a stone or earthenware jar. Put sufficient vinegar in a saucepan to cover the corn; flavour it with shallots cut into halves, bay- leaves, basilicum, and a few cloves and peppercorns. Boil the vinegar for ten minutes, then take it off the fire, and when cold, pour it over the corn. Sprinkle a few table-spoonfuls of mustard-seeds✪ Pickled Corn on the top, cover the jar with a piece of bladder, tie it round securely, and place it in a cupboard. Pop-Corn Balls. — Put the required quantity of pop-corn into a basin, and pour over syrup boiled to the feather degree (see Syrups). When the corn is thoroughly incorporated, form the mixture into balls with the hands, and put it into a press formed like a lemon squeezer. When compactly pressed, wrap the balls in tissue paper, and they are ready for use. The syrup may be flavoured with vanilla extract or lemon if desired✪ Pop-Corn Balls. Pop-Corn Candy. — Put loz. of butter into a sugar-boiler with 1 breakfast-cupful of coarsely-crushed loaf sugar and f tea- cupful of water, and boil to the candy degree ( see Sugar- boiling) ; then mix in 3qts. of pop-corn✪ Pop-Corn Candy, and stir until it is well covered with the sugar. Great care must be taken that it does not scorch. Take the pan off the fire, and con- tinue stirring the corn until it has cooled a little. Turn it on to a sheet of paper, and leave until quite cold and dry. Preserved Green Corn. — Choose very full ears of tender com, remove the husk and silk, cut the corn from the cob Indian Corn — continued. with the back of a knife, pack it in glass jars, filling them and pressing the corn down, and then close them with rubber and porcelain-lined covers. Put some laths across the bottom of a large boiler, and fill it with the jars of corn, laying a little straw or hay between each to prevent them knocking against one another during the boiling. Pour in enough cold water✪ Preserved Green Corn to half cover the jars, put the boiler over the fire, with a cloth and the cover over it, and boil the Corn steadily for three hours, taking care that there is water enough to furnish a full volume of steam. Take up the jars, and screw the covers as tight as possible. When the jars are cold, again screw the covers, and keep the Corn in a cool dark place.