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The New York receipt book

1882

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Presented as published in 1882. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Puddings. Minute Pudding.— Take 6 eggs, 2 spoonfuls sugar. 1 cup flour, a lump of butter large as an egg, and half a nutmeg; you may add, if you like, a half pound of raisinsMinute Pudding; mix well and bake quick. Plain Suet Pudding.— 1 pound flour, 4 ounces beef suet, a pinch or two of salt, l/2 pint of water.Plain Suet Pudding Chop the suet very fine, and mix it with the flour; work the whole into a paste. Tie the pudding, rolled in the shape of a bolster, in a cloth, and boil 3 hours. Roily- Polly Pudding.— Make a plain suet paste, roll it out thin, and spread the jam evenly over itRoily-Polly Pudding, leaving a space of an inch all round, or the jam will run out. Roll it in the shape of a bolster, tie it in a floured cloth, and put it into a saucepan of boiling water for \l/2 hours. Batter Pu'ding without Eggs.— 6 spoonfuls of flour, 1 quart milk, l/2 teaspoonful salt, 2 of ginger, 2 of tincture of saffron, a few raisins and currantsBatter Pudding without Eggs. Mix the flour with a small portion of the milk, then add the remainder of the milk, salt, grated ginger, and saffron; mix all together and boil one hour. Raisins or currants may be added. Cottage Pudding. — 3 eggs well beaten, 1 pint sweet milk, % teacup flour mixed dry with one teaspoonful yeast powder, lump butter the size of a walnut; bake 20 minutes in quick oven ; serve hot. Sauce for same— 1 teacup sugar, 1 tablespoon corn starch, § teaspoonful tartaric acid, i teacup of water;Cottage Pudding boil together. If the corn starch is mixed first dry with the sugar, it will not lump. Corn Starch Pudding.— Boil 1 quart of milk, then beat the yolks of 4 eggs with 4 spoonfuls corn starch and a little milk; stir into the boiling milk; let it boil up once, and turn into a pudding dish ; then beat the whites of the eggs to a froth and add 4 spoonfuls of powdered sugar; cover with the mixture, and set in the oven and brown lightly. Flavor with vanilla, lemon, etc.Corn Starch Pudding The frosting is improved by adding a flavor to it. Bread Pudding.— 1 quart of milk, 4 eggs— the whites of 3 more for meringue— 2 cups very fine dry bread crumbs, 1 spoonful melted butter, 1 teacupful sugar, juice and half the grated peel of 1 lemonBread Pudding. Beat eggs, sugar and butter together. Soak the crumbs in the milk and mix well. Season, and bake in greased dish. When almost done, cover with a meringue made of the whites of 3 eggs and a little powdered sugar. Eat cold. English. Tapioca Pudding.— 1 cup tapioca, 3 pints fresh milk, 5 eggs, 2 spoonfuls butter, 1 cup sugar, £ pound raisins, seeded and cut in half, half the grated peel of 1 lemonEnglish Tapioca Pudding. Soafc tapioca 1 hour in a pint of the milk; pour into jar; set in a pot of warm water and bring to a boil. When tapioca is soft all through, turn out to cool somewhat, while you make the custard. Beat the eggs very light; rub butter and sugar together; mix all with the tapioca, the fruit last. Bake in buttered dish one hour. ’Tis a jolly day from East to West, For children thrive, and mothers rest, The darling girls all named Victoria, And with the boys they have Castoria, It is a fact, there is no “ may be,” A mother’s milk can’t save the baby, While sweet Castoria digests their food, Gives them health and makes them good, Good Babies. 8 CRYING BABIES. SOI!" ^ S^ Crying Bab^