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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.
adding more butter, one egg, a small glass of brandy, tbe grated rind of a lemon, and as much sugar as will sweeten the whole richly, a very excellent pudding will be obtained ; candied orange-peel also has a good effect when sliced thinly into it ; and half a pound of currants is generally considered a further improvement. New milk, 1 pint ; sugar, 3 oz. ; salt, few grains ; bread-crumbs, \ lb. ; eggs, 4 (5, if very small) ; nutmeg or lemon-rind at pleasure : 1 hour and 10 minutes. Or : milk, 1 pint ; bread-crumbs, 6 oz. ; butter, 2 to 3 oz. ; sugar, 4 oz. ; eggs, 5 ; brandy, small glassful ; rind, 1 lemon. Further ad- ditions at choice : candied peel, oz. ; currants, | lb. A BROWN BREAD PUDDING. To half a pound of stale brown bread, finely and lightly grated, add an equal weight of suet chopped small, and of currants cleaned and dried, with half a saltspoonful of salt, three ounces of sugar, the third of a small nutmeg grated, two ounces of candied peel, five well-beaten eggs, and a glass of brandy. Mix these ingredients thoroughly, and boil the pudding in a cloth for three hours and a half. Send port wine sauce to table with it. The grated rind of a large lemon may be added to this pudding with good effect. Brown bread, suet, and currants, each 8 oz. ; sugar, 3 oz. ; candied peel, 2 oz. ; salt, | saltspoonful ; | of small nutmeg ; eggs, 5 ; brandy, 1 wineglassful : 3£ hours. A GOOD BOILED RICE PUDDING. Swell gradually,* and boil until quite soft and thick, four ounces and a half of whole rice in a pint and a half of new milk ; sweeten them with from three to four ounces of sugar, broken small, and stir to them while they are still quite hot, the grated rind of half a large lemon, four or five bitter almonds, poundedA Good Boiled Rice Pudding to a paste, and four large well-whisked egg? ; let the mixture cool, and then pour it into a thickly-buttered basin, or mould, which should be quite full ; tie a buttered paper and a floured cloth over it, and boil the pudding exactly an hour ; let it stand for two or three minutes before it is turned out, and serve it with sweet sauce, fruit syrup, or a compote of fresh fruit. An ounce and a hrdf of candied orange-rind will improve it much, and a couple of ounces of butter may be added to enrich it, when the receipt without is considered too simple. It is excellent when made with milk highly flavoured with cocoa-nut, or with vanilla. Whole rice, oz. ; new milk (or cocoa-nut- flavoured milk), i§ pint; sugar, 3 to 4 oz. ; salt, a few grains; bitter almonds, 4 to 6 ; rind of \ lemon ; eggs, 4 : boiled 1 hour. * That is to say, pat the rice into the milk while cold, heat it s lowly, and 1st it only simmer until it is done. 420 MODEBN COOKEEY. [chap. xx. CHEAP RICE PUDDING. Wash six ounces of rice, mix it with three quarters of a pound of /aisins, tie them in a well-floured cloth, giving them plenty of room to swell ; boil them exactly an hour and three quarters, and serve the pudding with very sweet sauce : this is a nice dish for the nursery. A pound of applesCheap Rice Pudding pared, cored, and quartered, will also make a very wholesome pudding, mixed with the rice, and boiled from an hour and a quarter to an hour and a half ; and sultana raisins and rice will give another good variety of this simple pudding. Rice, 6 oz. ; raisins, £ lb. : 2 hours. Or, rice, 6 oz. ; apples, 1 lb. . H to hour RICE AND GOOSEBERRY PUDDING. Rice and Gooseberry Pudding