Grateful Pudding

Ingredients

• fine flour
• grated bread
• four whole eggs
• four yolks
• well sweeten with fine loaf sugar
• as much cream as will make the whole the thickness of batter
• one pound of raisins
• one pound of currants
• nutmeg
• cinnamon
• candied-peel at pleasure

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, bread, eggs, sugar, and cream to a batter.

2. 2

   Add raisins, currants, nutmeg, cinnamon, and candied peel.

3. 3

   Bake in a buttered dish for three-quarters of an hour.

4. 4

   Serve with wine sauce or sugar and lemon juice.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 223. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one pound of currants, with a little flour. Mix the ingredients well together, roll up in a sheep's caul, and bake. 61. Grateful Pudding. Take fine flour and grated bread, of each an equal quantity ; four whole eggs and four 3"olks, well beaten ; well sweeten with fine loaf sugar, as nuich cream as Avill make the whole the thickness of batter ; then add raisins of the sun, stoned, and currants, of each one pound, more SWEETS. 423 or less, according to the size of the pudding ; nutmeg, cinnamon, candied-peel at pleasure; bake three-quarters of an hour in a dish well buttered ; when done, grate fine sugar over the pudding, and serve it with wine sauce or sugar and lemon -juice. 62. Grateful Pudding, Another. Take the crumb of white bread, slice thin into a dish to a quart of cream ; set it over a chafing dish of charcoal till the bread grows dryish ; put in a piece of sweet butter, take it off and let it get cold ; beat together four yolks and one or two Avhites with a little rose-water and suorar to your palate, and add this to the former with a grated nut- meg. Put all (being well mixed) into another dish, and so bake it. 63. Hanover Cake or Pudding. I'ake half a pound of almonds blanched and beaten fine with a little rose-water, half a pound of sifted sugar, twelve eggs, leaving out half the whites, the rind of a lemon gmted very fine ; put a few almonds in the mortar at a time, and introduce by degrees about a teacupful of rose- wat^r; keep throwing in the sugar: when you have done the almonds and the sugar together a little at a time till they are all used up, put the mixture into your pan Avith the eggs, beating them well together. In half an hour the dish Avill be baked ; it must be a lisrht brown. 64. Hunting Pudding. Beat eight eggs, and mix them with a pint of good cream and a pound of flour ; when beaten well together, add 424 THE THOROUGR GOOD COOK. a pound of beef suet chopped very fine, a pound of currants well-cleaned, half a pound of raisins

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