Bakewell Pudding (No. 2)

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• The weight of the egg in butter
• castor sugar
• flour
• A dust of baking powder
• A little grated lemon rind
• 1 good tablespoonful of jam
• Short pastry, household

Method

1. 1

   Line a dish with short pastry, spread jam on the bottom.

2. 2

   Beat butter with sugar to cream, add egg, lemon rind, flour, and baking powder.

3. 3

   Pour over jam and bake for half an hour until set.

4. 4

   Dust with sugar and serve hot or cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic cookery (1886) by H. M. Young, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A little grated lemon rind or 2 oz. sugar nutmeg Make a suet paste of ^ lb. flour (page 86), roll out ^ inch thick ; peel, core, and cut in half-quarters the apples ; lay them on the top of the paste, sprinkle over the sugar and a few currants or raisins if liked ; roll up, and seal the ends and edges thoroughly, roll up in a pudding cloth, wetted and floured, and tie up ; put into a pan of boiling water and boil 1^ hours. No. 162. ' APPLE DUMPLINGS (Baked). 6 apples, as near one size as possible Some brown sugar or a little jam Make a short paste, household (page 85), of f lb. flour ; roll out J inch thick; peel and core the apples without dividing them. 66 and fill the centres with the brown sugar or a little jam ; cut the pastry in squares, and stand an apple on each ; wet and draw round the edges, sealing well together ; bake in a moderate oven half-an-hour, or until the apples are soft. Cover with castor sugar and serve. No. 163. BAKEWELL PUDDING (No. 1). 4 eggs ^ lb. castor sugar A few drops vanilla 2 oz. butter 2 tablespoonfuls jam 1 oz. flour Line a flattish dish with rough puff pastry (page 84), deco- rate the edges; put on the bottom the jam ; melt the butter with the sugar, add the yolks of the eggs and the white of one ; mix thoroughly ; dust in the flour, pour over the jam, and bake until set, about 45 minutes ; whip up the white, add one dessertspoonful castor sugar ; lay roughly on the top ; put back in the oven a few minutes to set the white of the egg. Serve hot or cold. No. 164. BAKEWELL PUDDING (No. 2). 1 egg The weight of the egg in butter, castor sugar, and flour A dust of baking powder A^little grated lemon rind 1 good tablespoonful of jam Short pastry, household

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