Bird's-Nest Pudding

Ingredients

• Six medium-sized apples
• One cupful of sugar
• One-half cupful of milk
• One-half cupful of water
• Flour
• One tea-spoonful of baking-powder
• One tea-spoonful of cinnamon
• One egg
• One table-spoonful of butter

Method

1. 1

   Peel and core the apples, cut them into eighths.

2. 2

   Place them in a pudding-dish with half the sugar, the cinnamon and the water, and bake until nearly done.

3. 3

   While the apples are cooking, rub the butter and the rest of the sugar together, add the beaten egg, stir well, and add the milk.

4. 4

   Sift the baking-powder and half a teacupful of flour together, and add them to the mixture, stirring in more flour until a rather thick batter is formed.

5. 5

   When the apples are tender, carefully turn the batter over the top of them, return the dish to the oven, and bake twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 190. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

bird's-nest pudding. This dessert is to be eaten hot. To make enough for seven persons take Six medium-sized apples. One cupful of sugar. One-half cupful of milk. One-half cupful of water. Flour. One tea-spoonful of baking-powder. One tea-spoonful of cinnamon. One egg. One table-spoonful of butter

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