Cornflour Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 pint milk
• 3 table-spoons powdered sugar
• 3 whites of eggs
• •i tea-spoon vanilla
• 2 heaping table-spoons cornflour

Method

1. 1

   Mix cornflour to a smooth paste with a little milk.

2. 2

   Boil the rest of the milk with sugar in a double boiler.

3. 3

   Add cornflour when boiling, stir until smooth and thick.

4. 4

   Cook gently for about twenty minutes.

5. 5

   Beat in egg whites and vanilla, strain if not smooth, and pour into a mould.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The pudding and pastry book (1900) by Elizabeth Douglas, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cornflour Pudding . Cream Whip Danish Pudding Ginger Pudding- Gooseberry Fool Lemon Souffle Marrons a la Celestine Meringues . Milk Jelly . Mousse aux fruits Givres Orange Charlotte . Pain aux Fruits Pine Apple Meringue Pines on Horseback Queen of Puddings Spanish Cream Strawberry Sponge King’s Souffle PAGE no no in in 112 112 113 113 114 114 115 116 116 117 117 118 118 119 120 120 121 109 Charlotte Russe 5 oz. gelatine 1 pint cream 12 lady fingers 3 table-spoons powdered sugar 1 tea-spoon vanilla 1 table-spoon sherry or liqueur Set the gelatine to soak in cold water. Line a mould with lady fingers, leaving a little space between each. Whip the cream (see p. 3). Add the sugar, vanilla, and wine. Dissolve the gelatine in as little boiling water as possible. Strain it very slowly through a fine strainer into the cream, stirring rapidly all the time. Stir until the cream begins to stiffen. Then pour it into the mould and set in a cold place or on ice. The mould may be lined with plain or rolled wafers instead of lady fingers. The cream may be flavoured with coffee, choco- late, or any fruit syrup. Chocolate Blanc-Mange 1| ozs. gelatine 1 quart milk \ lb. powdered sugar 4 table-spoons grated chocolate i tea-spoon vanilla Soak the gelatine for two hours. Add it to the warmed milk and sugar. Let it heat gently. 110 Pastry Book When the gelatine is melted, strain. Add the chocolate and boil for five minutes, stirring continually. Take off the tire. When nearly cold, beat for ten minutes with a whisk and add the vanilla. Pour into a mould. Serve with cream. Chocolate Meringue G whites of eggs 1 lb. powdered sugar 1 tea-spoon vanilla 3 ozs. powdered chocolate Beat three whites with the sugar for fifteen minutes. Then add the rest of the whites one at a time, beating well. Add the vanilla and chocolate. Drop on stiff note-paper which has been well buttered, and place upon a board in a slow oven. Bake until dry. Cornflour Pudding 1 pint milk 3 table-spoons powdered sugar 3 whites of eggs •i tea-spoon vanilla 2 heaping table-spoons cornflour

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