Invalid’s Pudding

Name: Invalid’s Pudding
Ingredients: 2 cups of milk; 2 eggs; 2 tablespoonfuls of maizena or flour; 2 teaspoonfuls of sugar; A pat of butter; A pinch of salt; Vanilla essence or lemon essence

From Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper, 1902

This pudding may be given to a patient recovering from typhoid fever.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 111. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Invalid’s Pudding. — 2 cups of milk. 2 eggs. 2 tablespoonfuls of maizena or flour. 2 teaspoonfuls of sugar. A pat of butter. A pinch of salt. Vanilla essence or lemon essence

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