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1891

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Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Grate two cupfuls of carrots ; add to this one and a half cupfuls of finely chopped suet ; four of moist sugar ; eight of flour ; half a pound of chopped raisins ; the same of currants ; one salt- spoonful of saCarrot Puddinglt ; and steam four hours. Set in an oven twenty minutes before serving. Chocolate Blancmange. Take a tin of condensed milk, and add some fresh milk to it ; stir it over the fire, and stir into it about six sheets of white leaf gelatine which has been soaked in a cup of cold water ; add three tcaspoonfuls of grated chocolateChocolate Blancmange, boil ten minutes, stirring all the time ; when nearly cold beat for five minutes or until it begins to stiffen. Flavour and whip up at once, and put into a wet mould, and it will be firm in six or seven hours. Chocolate Pudding. Take three tablespoonfuls of sugar, four of cornflour. Dissolve two and a half tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate in hot water, scald a quart of milkChocolate Pudding by putting it into a boiler over boiling water. D 2 36 TEMPTING DISHES . Dissolve the cornflour in a little scalded milk, and before it thickens, stir in the dissolved chocolate ; keep all in the boiler, stirring constantly till cooked. Use with cream or custard. Coffee Custards. Make a quarter of a pint of very strong clear coffee and, when cold, stir it into half a pint of sweetened milk ; beat up two fresh eggsCoffee Custards (leaving out the whites), mix them with the coffee and milk ; put into a jug and stir over the fire as above. When cool, pour into custard glasses. Crumb Pudding. One quart of milk, the same of bread-crumbs, three-quarters of a cup of sugar, the yolk of two eggs, a tablespoonful of butter : flavour with nutmeg and lemonCrumb Pudding ; then bake in a slow oven, and when done spread over a layer of red-currant jelly. Whip the whites of the eggs to a froth ; add two tablespoonfuls of castor sugar ; pour over the jelly and bake a light brown. The Empress Rice. RIZ A L’lMPERATRICE. Boil three tablespoonfuls of washed rice in a pint of milk, with sugar to taste, and a few drops of essence of vanilla. Make a custard with a gill of milk and three eggs, and when cold add it to the rice. Beat to a froth a gill of cream with some sugar and a pinch oi isinglassineThe Empress Rice , dissolved in a little water. Mix this in with the rice and custard ; fill a mould, and set on ice ; then turn it out and serve. Preserved fruit, or preserve, may be served with it. TEMPTING DISHES 37 French Cannelons. Make some puff paste, roll thin, and cut into equal-sized strips. Place a spoonful of jamFrench Cannelons in the centre of each, cover with another strip of pastry, give a slight twist in the centre of each, and fry in boiling lard for about ten minutes ; then drain thoroughly upon a hot napkin and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Fig Mould. Take half-a pound of figs, the yellow peel of a lemon, chopped fine, one and a half ounces of white sugar, and a large teacupful of waterFig Mould ; put all in a jar with a cover or lid on, and place it in a saucepan with as much boiling water as will reach half-way up the jar, and let all stew gently till all the liquid is dried up and the figs are quite soft ; press the figs into a mould and let it stand till cold, then turn out, and pour a custard round it. Fig Pudding. Fig Pudding