One quart milk, four well-beaten eggs, four tablespoons
sugar✪ Baked Custard. Flavor to taste. Bake in moderate oven.
44 Mother Hubbard's Cupboard.
tapioca pudding.
One small cup of tapioca, one quart of milk, one teaspoon
of butter, three tablespoons of sugar✪ Tapioca Pudding. Soak the tapioca in
water four or five hours, then add the milk ; flavor with es-
sence of lemon or anything else you prefer. Bake slowly one
hour. To be made the day before it is wanted, and eaten
cold with cream or milk and sugar. Some prefer the pudding
made with three pints of milk and no water.
APPLE TAPIOCA PUDDING.
Pare and core enough apples to fill a dish ; put into each
apple a bit of lemon peel. Soak half a pint of tapioca in one
quart of lukewarm water one hour ; add a little salt ; flavor
with lemon✪ Apple Tapioca Pudding ; pour over the apples. Bake until apples are
tender. Eat when cold, with cream and sugar.
TAPIOCA AND COCOANUT PUDDING.
One cup tapioca, soaked over night ; one quart milk, yolks
of four eggs, white of two, one cup sugar, two tablespoons
grated cocoanut✪ Tapioca and Cocoanut Pudding. Bake one-half hour. Make frosting of
whites two eggs, three tablespoons sugar, two tablespoons
grated cocoanut ; spread over the pudding when baked. Set
in the oven until a light brown.
Delia.
TAPIOCA CREAM.
Three tablespoons tapioca, soaked in a teacup of water
over night ; add one quart of milk ; stir together and boil
twenty minutes. Beat the yolks of three eggs and one cup
sugar thoroughly ; stir into the milk ; flavor with vanilla✪ Tapioca Cream.
Beat the whites very stiff, put in the bottom of the dish and
pour the rest over it. Serve cold.
Plain and Fancy Desserts. 45
PUFFS.
Two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder sifted to-
gether ; add one and three-fourths cups sweet milk, one tea-
spoon melted butter, one-half cup sugar, one egg✪ Puffs ; stir quickly.
Bake in patty tins twenty minutes. Serve with sauce.
Mrs. H. C.
FRITTERS.
Two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, two eggs,
milk enough for stiff batter, a little salt✪ Fritters. Drop into boiling
lard ; fry light brown. Serve with cream and sugar or sauce.
FRITTERS.
One cup sour milk, one egg, one-half teaspoon salt ; flour
to make stiff batter; one even teaspoon soda — last thing.
Fry in lard. To be eaten with lemon and sugar, or cider
sweetened and hot. E. B.
TAPIOCA MERINGUE.
One small cup of tapioca, three pints of milk, three eggs✪ Tapioca Meringue.
Soak the tapioca in the milk two hours or more ; cook in a
farina boiler until soft ; beat the yolks of the eggs and stir in.
Sweeten, flavor and set away to cool. Before sending to
table, whip the whites to a stiff froth and stir in lightly.
Mrs. W. N. S.
RICE MERINGUE.
One-half tea cup of rice, one quart of milk, four eggs, eight
teaspoons of fine sugar, a little salt✪ Rice Meringue. Boil the rice in the
milk until it is soft ; beat the yolks of the eggs with four
spoons of the sugar and stir into the rice while it is hot.
Flavor with vanilla, and put the mixture into your pudding
dish. Beat the whites of the eggs dry ; stir in the other four
spoons of sugar ; spread the frosting evenly over the pudding
and bake a light brown. Mrs. W. N. S.
46 "Mother Hubbard's Cupboard."
CAKE MERINGUE.
Line a pudding dish with cake ; fill it with boiled custard ;
spread a meringue over the top, and bake a light brown.
Mrs. A. S. Mann.
COCOANUT PUDDING.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
One quart milk, four well-beaten eggs, four tablespoons sugar. Flavor to taste. Bake in moderate oven.
44 Mother Hubbard's Cupboard.
tapioca pudding.
One small cup of tapioca, one quart of milk, one teaspoon of butter, three tablespoons of sugar. Soak the tapioca in water four or five hours, then add the milk ; flavor with essence of lemon or anything else you prefer. Bake slowly one hour. To be made the day before it is wanted, and eaten cold with cream or milk and sugar. Some prefer the pudding made with three pints of milk and no water.
APPLE TAPIOCA PUDDING.
Pare and core enough apples to fill a dish ; put into each apple a bit of lemon peel. Soak half a pint of tapioca in one quart of lukewarm water one hour ; add a little salt ; flavor with lemon ; pour over the apples. Bake until apples are tender. Eat when cold, with cream and sugar.
TAPIOCA AND COCOANUT PUDDING.
One cup tapioca, soaked over night ; one quart milk, yolks of four eggs, white of two, one cup sugar, two tablespoons grated cocoanut. Bake one-half hour. Make frosting of whites two eggs, three tablespoons sugar, two tablespoons grated cocoanut ; spread over the pudding when baked. Set in the oven until a light brown.
Delia.
TAPIOCA CREAM.
Three tablespoons tapioca, soaked in a teacup of water over night ; add one quart of milk ; stir together and boil twenty minutes. Beat the yolks of three eggs and one cup sugar thoroughly ; stir into the milk ; flavor with vanilla. Beat the whites very stiff, put in the bottom of the dish and pour the rest over it. Serve cold.
Plain and Fancy Desserts. 45
PUFFS.
Two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder sifted together ; add one and three-fourths cups sweet milk, one teaspoon melted butter, one-half cup sugar, one egg ; stir quickly. Bake in patty tins twenty minutes. Serve with sauce.
Mrs. H. C.
FRITTERS.
Two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, two eggs, milk enough for stiff batter, a little salt. Drop into boiling lard ; fry light brown. Serve with cream and sugar or sauce.
FRITTERS.
One cup sour milk, one egg, one-half teaspoon salt ; flour to make stiff batter; one even teaspoon soda — last thing. Fry in lard. To be eaten with lemon and sugar, or cider sweetened and hot. E. B.
TAPIOCA MERINGUE.
One small cup of tapioca, three pints of milk, three eggs. Soak the tapioca in the milk two hours or more ; cook in a farina boiler until soft ; beat the yolks of the eggs and stir in. Sweeten, flavor and set away to cool. Before sending to table, whip the whites to a stiff froth and stir in lightly.
Mrs. W. N. S.
RICE MERINGUE.
One-half tea cup of rice, one quart of milk, four eggs, eight teaspoons of fine sugar, a little salt. Boil the rice in the milk until it is soft ; beat the yolks of the eggs with four spoons of the sugar and stir into the rice while it is hot. Flavor with vanilla, and put the mixture into your pudding dish. Beat the whites of the eggs dry ; stir in the other four spoons of sugar ; spread the frosting evenly over the pudding and bake a light brown. Mrs. W. N. S.
46 "Mother Hubbard's Cupboard."
CAKE MERINGUE.
Line a pudding dish with cake ; fill it with boiled custard ; spread a meringue over the top, and bake a light brown.
Mrs. A. S. Mann.
COCOANUT PUDDING.
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Boiled CustardBaked CustardBaked CustardTapioca PuddingSponge Pudding (Alternate)Apple Tapioca PuddingTapioca and Cocoanut PuddingCocoanut PuddingTapioca CreamPuffsFrittersTapioca MeringueRice Meringue