Gingerbread Pudding
From A year's cookery, 1880
Serves 4
Can be made more easily by using beef dripping instead of mixing bread-crumbs and suet.
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 154. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Gingerbread Pudding. Butter. Cheese. Milk Toast. Marketing. For the Day.— A well-kept Shoulder of Mutton, not too fat (January 17th) ; Onions ; Potatoes ; Broccoli ; a pennyworth of Parsley ; a pound of Beef Kidney Suet, part of it for to-day and part for to-morrow. A YEARS COOKERY. 193 Breakfast. — Pilchards (January 23rd) ; Potted Grouse (January 7th) ; Muffins (January 30th); Milk Toast (June 17th). Luncheon. — Rissoles of the remains of Beef (January 6th) ; Fried Hominy (February 12th). Dinner. — Lobster Soup. — Take the stock made from the mutton bones (Note 2, May 18th), and stew it for an hour with a carrot, a turnip, a small onion, a very small pinch of celery-seed tied in muslin, and half a dozen peppercorns. Rub the soup through a sieve, and to each pint of liquor add a dessert-spoonful of corn¬ flour mixed smoothly with half a pint of milk. Stir the soup till it boils, then add pepper and salt to taste, and a quarter of a tea¬ spoonful of essence of anchovy. Break the yolk of an egg into the soup tureen, stir in the soup, and add the preserved lobster, cut into neat pieces. Let these stand for five or six minutes, and serve. The lobster must on no account boil in the soup. Roast Shoulder of Mutton (December 16th); Glazed Onions (February 14th); Boiled Potatoes (April 7th) ; Broccoli (April 25th). Gingerbread Padding. — Take six ounces of stale bread-crumbs that have been rubbed through a wire sieve ; mix with them three ounces of flour, six ounces of finely-chopped beef suet, a tea-spoonful of powdered ginger, and a tea-spoonful of baking-powder. Dissolve two table-spoonfuls of treacle in a gill of milk, add three drops of almond-flavouring
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