Hydropathic Pudding

Ingredients

• 2 oz. dates, chopped
• 2 oz. crystallised ginger, cut small
• Sprinkle layer of dates
• then ginger
• then sliced cake or bread and butter
• Beat 2 eggs
• 1 pint milk
• 1 tablespoon sugar

Method

1. 1

   Sprinkle layer of dates in buttered bowl, then ginger, then sliced cake or bread and butter, pressing lightly down into fruit, and so on, leaving cake last.

2. 2

   Fill 3 parts full.

3. 3

   Beat 2 eggs with dessertspoon sugar.

4. 4

   Add 1 pint milk and pour gradually over pudding.

5. 5

   Steam for 0.5 hour.

6. 6

   Serve with ginger sauce made with 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon chopped preserved ginger, and tiny piece of ground ginger.

7. 7

   Boil together, and just before serving add yolk of egg and teaspoon milk.

8. 8

   Stir till it thickens.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 pint Milk, 2 Eggs well beaten, 2 oz. Sugar, and a pinch of Salt. Mix thoroughly, and bake f hour. Hydropathic Pudding. 2 oz. dates, chopped, 2 oz. crystallised ginger, cut small. Sprinkle layer of dates in buttered bowl, then ginger, then sliced cake or bread and butter, pressing lightly down into fruit, and so on, leaving cake last. Fill 3 parts full. Beat 2 eggs with dessertspoon sugar. Add J pint milk and pour gradually over pudding. Steam f hour. Serve with ginger sauce made with 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon sugar

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