Gala Pudding

Ingredients

• one table-spoonful of flour
• two of new milk
• a cupful of boiling milk
• a table-spoonful of sugar
• a piece of butter the size of a walnut
• the yolk of an egg
• three-parts fill it with slices of spongecake
• spread with apricot, strawberry, or any other good jam
• the whites of two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour with new milk, pour boiling milk over, add sugar, butter, and egg yolk.

2. 2

   Simmer until thick.

3. 3

   Line a pie-dish with crust, fill with spongecake and jam, pour custard over, and bake.

4. 4

   Top with beaten egg whites and bake briefly until set.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 566. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gala Pudding (sometimes called General Satisfaction Pudding) . — Mix one table-spoonful of flour smoothly with two of new milk. Pour over it a cupful of boiling milk, flavoured with lemon, and add a table-spoonful of sugar, a piece of butter the size of a walnut, and th(j yolk of an egg ; simmer gently, stirring all the time, until it thickens. Line the edge of a pie- dish with a good crust. Thi-ee-parts fill it with slices of spongecake, spread with apricot, strawberrj', or any other good jam. Pour the custard over them, and bake in a moderate oven. When the pudding is sufficiently cooked, lay on it the whites of two eggs

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