Brown Betty
From A year's cookery, 1880
Serves 6
A spoonful or two of prepared quince would improve this pudding.
Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 316. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Brown Betty. Biscuits and Milk. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— Top side of the Hound ordered yesterday ; Potatoes ; Apples. For To-morrow. —A dried Haddock ; a tin of potted Grouse ; a line Ox Tail ; Watercress. Breakfast. — Prawns (February 7th) ; Eggs on the Dish (December 7th) ; Biscuits and Milk (June 14th). Luncheon. — Shepherd’s Pie, made of the remnants of Steak (January 12th) ; Custard Sippets (June 10th). Dinner. — Potato Pmkse (January 26th) ; Top side of the Round of Beef (February 3rd, and March 4th). Yorkshire Pudding. — Make some batter according to the recipe given with Toad in the Hole (January 15th), or if a richer batter is required, allow two eggs to three table-spoonfuls of flour, instead of one egg to two table¬ spoonfuls of flour. Remember always that the batter will be much lighter if it is made some hours before it is wanted. Let the tin in which the pudding is to be baked get hot through, and be well greased by being placed under the roasting joint. Pour the batter into it to the thickness of a quarter of an inch, and cook it under the joint before the fire, turning it about that it may be equally browned on all sides. When it is done enough, cut it into three inch squares, and serve these on a separate dish at the same time as the pudding. Yorkshire pudding as made in Yorkshire is thin, and browned on one side only, according to the method described here. Yorkshire pudding served in other parts of the country is half an inch thick, and is sometimes browned on both sides, being occasionally turned over when it is browned on the uppermost surface. Sometimes it is baked in the oven under a baking joint instead of before the fire under a roasting one. When this plan is adopted, it is an improve¬ ment to bake the batter in small tins, after the fashion of Wyvern Puddings (May 9th), instead of putting it in one large tin. The 404 A YEAR'S COOKERY . small puddings thus made may, if liked, be placed on the dish round the joint. Haricot Beans (June 20th) ; Potato Mould (October 23rd). Brown Betty. — Pare, core, and slice six or eight large baking-apples, and prepare a large cupful of fine bread-crumbs. Butter a pie-dish, place a thin layer of bread-crumbs to cover the bottom of the dish, and put a layer of apples on this. Grate a little lemon-rind, or if preferred put a clove with the fruit, sprinkle sugar upon it, and lay two or three knobs of butter on the top. Pill the dish with these alternate layers of crumbs, apples, sugar, and butter, remembering that crumbs should form the uppermost layer. Pour a cupful of water on the top
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Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.