Cabinet Pudding

Ingredients

• One dozen lady fingers
• one ounce of ratifias
• four eggs
• one ounce of sugar
• three ounces of stale cake
• one pint of milk
• one teaspoonful of essence of vanilla
• one dozen preserved cherries

Method

1. 1

   Grease a pint and a half soufflé tin and arrange cherries at the bottom.

2. 2

   Line the mould with lady fingers.

3. 3

   Break remaining lady fingers and add to the centre with crushed ratifias and stale cake.

4. 4

   Beat sugar and eggs until light, then add milk and vanilla.

5. 5

   Pour into the mould, cover, and boil for one hour and twenty minutes.

6. 6

   Turn out onto a flat pudding dish and serve with lemon sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cooking (1880) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cabinet Pudding. — One dozen lady fingers, one ounce of ratifias, four eggs, one ounce of sugar, three ounces of stale cake, one pint of milk, one teaspoonful of essence of vanilla, one dozen preserved cherries

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