Bay-Leaf Cornflour Pudding

Ingredients

• 3 pints of milk
• 6 table-spoonfuls of Cornflour
• three bay-leaves
• three eggs
• 3oz. of sugar
• 1 saltspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Put milk into a saucepan on the stove, and while it is getting hot, blend Cornflour with a little cold milk.

2. 2

   Just before the milk boils, crush bay-leaves and throw them into it, then stir in the blended Cornflour.

3. 3

   Keep stirring till it boils, and let it boil for five minutes.

4. 4

   Move the saucepan away from the fire to cool slightly.

5. 5

   Beat together eggs, sugar, and salt.

6. 6

   Pick the bay-leaves out of the boiled Cornflour, mix in the beaten eggs and sugar, then pour it into a pudding-dish and bake for ten minutes in a moderately hot oven.

7. 7

   Serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 490. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

table-spoonfuls of Cornflour with the milk reserved for the purpose and 2 table-spoonfuls of sugar ; when the milk in the saucepan is almost boiling, pour into it the blended Cornflour, milk, and sugar ; stir till it boils, and then at once take the For details respecting Culinary Processes, Utensils, Sauces, itc., referred to, see under their special heads. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PRACTICAL COOKERY. 443 Cornflour — continued. pan from the fire. Beat up two eggs, and when the Cornflour has cooled a little stir them well into it. Pour it now into a well-buttered pudding-dish and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes. (5) Put 3 pints of milk into a saucepan on the stove, and while it is getting hot, blend 6 table-spoonfuls of Corn- flour with a little cold milk. Just before the milk boils crush three bay-leaves in the hands and throw them into it, then stir in the blended Cornflour. Keep stirring till it boils, and let it boil for five minutes, still stirring, or it may burn. Move the saucepan a little away from the fire so that it may cool slightly. Beat together three eggs, 3oz. of sugar, and 1 saltspoonful of salt

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