Almond Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 breakfast-cupful of fine bread-crumbs
• 1 pint of sweet milk
• 1 lb. butter
• (2 ozs. will do)
• 200 almonds, blanched and minced
• 5 lb. white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 oz. candied citron
• 1 teaspoonful of finely-pounded cassia

Method

1. 1

   Soak the bread in the milk, then beat up the butter, sugar, and yolks of the eggs together.

2. 2

   Squeeze the milk out of the bread-crumbs and mix them with the other ingredients and the almonds.

3. 3

   Whisk the whites stiffly, and add them, beating all the time.

4. 4

   Butter a pudding-dish, pour the mixture into it, and bake for three-quarters of an hour with a buttered paper over the dish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Almond Pudding. — 1 have 153 June ALMOND AND DATE PUDDINGS to-day got two pudding recipes to add to my collection —one IS Miss Leisching’s almond pudding, from an old recipe, as follows. Ingredients I breakfast-cupful of fine bread-crumbs. I pint of sweet milk. I lb. butter (2 ozs. will do). 200 almonds, blanched and minced (or instead 01 this a cupful of desiccated cocoanut). 5 lb. white sugar. 3 eggs. I oz. candied citron. I teaspoonful of finely-pounded cassia

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