Cornflour Pudding with Eggs

Ingredients

• lqt. of milk
• 5 pint of Cornflour
• three eggs
• 3oz. of sugar
• 1 saltspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Put milk over the fire, and when it comes to the boil, shake and stir in Cornflour, continue stirring till it boils, and let it boil three minutes.

2. 2

   Take it from the fire, and let it cool; then mix in an egg beaten up with sugar, salt, and grated nutmeg to taste.

3. 3

   Put it into a buttered pudding-dish and bake in a moderate oven for three-quarters-of-an-hour.

4. 4

   Serve cream with it.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 7 servings.

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.

lqt. of milk, put it over the fire, and keep stirring till it thickens. Sweeten to taste either with sugar or treacle, grate a little nutmeg into it, and stir in two well-beaten eggs and loz. of butter. Pour the pudding into a pudding-dish, and bake in a Dutch-oven in front of the fire for half-an-hour. (4) Put lqt. of milk into a saucepan, keeping back enough to mix the Cornflour with, and let it get hot. Mix smoothly 4 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. Pick the bay-leaves out of the boiled Cornflour, and mix in the beaten eggs and sugar, then pour it into a pudding-dish and bake for ten minutes in a moderately hot oven. Serve hot. (6) Mix together 1 breakfast-cupful each of yellow corn- meal and molasses, and pour over them lqt. of boiling milk, mixing it in gradually ; then add 1 teaspoonful of salt, 1 table-spoonful of ground cinnamon or ginger, and 1 piled table-spoonful of butter, and let these ingredients cool. When they are quite cold, put them into an earthen pudding-dish, set it in a moderate oven, pour upon the top 1 pint of cold milk, but do not stir the milk into the pudding, and bake for three hours, taking care that the pudding does not burn. Serve either hot or cold. (7) Put 1 pint of milk over the fire, and when it comes to the boil, shake and stir in 5 pint of Cornflour

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.