Invalid Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 oz. chopped Suet
• 1 oz. Flour
• 1 oz. Bread Crumbs
• 1 oz. Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1 tablespoonful Milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix and steam for half an hour.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Gas cookery (1885) by Helen Edden, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 egg, seasoning. Method. — Chop the meat finely and pound it, season, and add the yolk of egg and the whipped cream. Lastly, stir in the white of the egg, whisked to a stiff froth. Put in small moulds well buttered and steam very gently for about fifteen minutes. Clear JBarley Mater. Ingredients. — 1 pint boiling Water, 2 ozs. Pearl Barley, 1 Lemon, 1 oz. Loaf Sugar. METHOD. — Blanch the pearl barley by putting it on in cold water and bringing it to the boil. Strain the barley and throw the water away. Then put the barley in a jug and pour on to it the pint of boiling water, sugar, lemon peel and juice. Cover the jug, and when the mixture is cold strain it. patent JBarlep. Barley Water for Invalids. — Take of the patent barley one ounce, mix with a wine-glassful of INVALID COOKERY. 163 cold water, pour this into a stewpan containing one quart of boiling water, stir this over the fire while boiling for five minutes ; then flavour with a small bit of lemon peel or cinnamon, and sweeten according to taste. Note. — When the patent barley is used to make a summer beverage, only half an ounce must be taken. Cornflour pudding. Ingredients. — 2 ozs. Cornflour, 1 pint Milk, 1 oz. Butter, 1 oz. Castor Sugar, 1 Egg, grated Lemon Rind. Method. — Put the milk on to boil ; mix the corn- flour with some water to a paste, and pour into the boiling milk, stirring it for two or three minutes. Then add the sugar and peel, and beat in the egg. Pour into a buttered dish and bake for a quarter of an hour. Cornflour Soufflee. Ingredients. — 1 oz. Cornflour, 1 oz. Castor Sugar, ^ pint Milk, Essence of Vanilla, 2 Eggs. METHOD. — Prepare the cornflour as in the previous recipe, but only beat in the yolks of eggs. Whip up the whites very stiffly, and add lightly to the mixture just before pouring it into the buttered pie dish. Bake in a hot oven for a quarter of an hour, placing it under the browning shelf to rise and brown. 164 INVALID COOKERY. jBqq Cream. Ingredients. — Yolks and whites of two Eggs, 1 oz. of Castor Sugar, juice and grated rind of half a Lemon or Orange. Method. — Put the yolks of eggs, castor sugar, and rind and juice of lemon in a gallipot, and put the gallipot in a saucepan of boiling water. Cook gently, stirring all the time, and when it begins to thicken,, stir in the whites of the eggs whipped to a strong froth, and mix them well in. Then set it to cool, and serve in small glasses. jfrmt Xemona&e. Ingredients. — The juice of 1 Lemon, 1 oz. Castor Sugar,. 2 ozs. of any ripe Fruit, such as raspberries, strawberries, etc.,, rubbed through a hair sieve, l/2 pint cold Water. Method. — Mix these well and strain into a large tumbler, add a small piece of ice and serve. This is a refreshing beverage during the hot weather. Cruel. Ingredients. — X oz. of Groats, ]/2 pint of Milk, 1 Lemon (half the rind), pinch of Salt or Sugar. Method. — Mix the groats smoothly with a little cold milk to a paste, put the remainder on to boil with the lemon rind, pour in the groats and simmer gently for ten minutes. Strain into a breakfast cup and let the invalid drink it, not spoon it. This should be of the consistency of cream. INVALID COOKERY. 165 patent Groats. Gruel. — Take of the patent groats, one table- spoonful, mix with a wine-glassful of cold water, gradually added, into a smooth paste, pour this into a stewpan containing nearly a pint of boiling water, or milk, stir the gruel on the fire while it boils for ten minutes ; pour it into a basin, add a pinch of salt and a little butter, or if more agreeable, some sugar, and a small quantity of spirits. Note. — When gruel is made for an invalid, butter had best be omitted. 3nvaU& pu&tmtcj. Ingredients. — 1 oz. chopped Suet, 1 oz. Flour, 1 oz. Bread Crumbs. 1 oz. Sugar, 1 Egg, 1 tablespoonful Milk

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