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Practical West African cookery

1910

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Presented as published in 1910. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
3 lumps or 1 dessertspoon sugar. £ teaspoon butter. 2 or 3 drops of vanilla essenceTapioca Pudding. 1. If the tapioca has stuck together in lumps, crush it with a bottle. Paint the inside of the smallest pie-dish with a little of the butter, and about two hours before the pudding is wanted put in the tapioca with the milk, sugar, vanilla and the remaining butter and let it stand. 2. Fifteen minutes before the time to serve, put the pie-dish in the oven to bake and brown on top. SWEETS. 127 Atcha Pudding. (I). This is made exactly like tapioca pudding. The atcha should be washed before being put to soak in tbe milk. Bread and Butter Pudding. (I). 3 slices stale bread, less than a quarter of an inch thick. 1 teacup milk (if Ideal, 1 tablespoon to the rest of water). 1 dessertspoon sugar. 1. Paint the inside of the of the butter or oil. £ teaspoon butter or oil. 1 egg. A pinch of nutmeg or 2 or 3 drops vanilla essence. (1 dessertspoon dried currants)Bread and Butter Pudding. smallest pie-dish with a little 2. Cut each of the slices of bread into four pieces and arrange them in the dish. Sprinkle between each slice a little of the sugar (and some of the currants if you have any). 3. Beat up the egg and mix it with the milk, add the vanilla and pour it over the bread. Let the dish stand for five minutes until the bread is well soaked but not mashy. Sprinkle over the remaining currants, dust over with the nutmeg if you have not put any vanilla in the milk and put on top any remaining butter. Put in a good oven and bake for ten minutes. The top of the pudding must be brown and crisp. Baked Custard. (I). 2 eggs. 1 teacup milk (if Ideal, 1 tablespoon to the rest of water). 1 dessertspoon sugar. 1. With a feather dish with the 2 or 3 drops vanilla or any other essence. $ teaspoon butter or a little lard or oilBaked Custard. paint the inside of the smallest pie- butter or lard. 2. Beat up the eggs but only so as to mix them thoroughly. Mix them with the milk, sugar and flavouring. If you have used butter to grease the pie-dish, float the remainder on top. 128 SWEETS. 3. Place the pie-dish in the oven and bake for five minutes. It is move prudent to stand the dish in a baking tin filled with boiling water so as to prevent it baking too quickly. Plain Custard. (I). 2 very fresh eggs. J 1 small dessertspoon sugar. 4 large tablespoons milk (if i 3 or 4 drops vanilla essencePlain Custard Ideal, 1 tablespoon to 3 of j orl small teaspoon whisky, water). j brandy or gin. 1. Put the yolks only of the two eggs into the small pudding basin and slowly stir in the milk. Then add the sugar, finely crushed, and the flavouring. 2. Stand the basin in the flat saucepan containing enough boiling water to reach half way up the basin. Hold the basin firm with the left hand and stir slowly with the right till the mixture has the consistency of thick cream. Then remove it quickly, pour it into two small glasses or a cup, stand in cold water and serve with stewed fruit. Note.— Flavoured with vanilla only, this custard is very good for an invalid and is quickly made. Snow Eggs. (II.) 3 very fresh eggs. 1^ tablespoons sugar. 1 breakfast cup milk (if Ideal, Afew drops vanilla essence two tablespoons to the rest i or one dessertspoon of of water). whisky, brandy or gin. Snow Eggs