Lime or Orange Pudding

Ingredients

• 12 lumps or 3 tablespoons sugar
• 2 good tablespoons cornflour
• 1 pint milk
• the juice of one lime or orange
• the yolks of eggs
• the white of the eggs

Method

1. 1

   Rub the pieces of sugar on the outer rind of the limes or oranges till they are quite yellow.

2. 2

   Mix the cornflour with a little water to a smooth paste and put it in the enamel saucepan, adding slowly the rest of the water.

3. 3

   Bring it to the boil quickly, add the sugar, the juice of one lime or orange and the yolks of eggs.

4. 4

   Let it boil slowly for eight minutes, stirring all the time, put it aside to cool.

5. 5

   Beat up the white of the eggs to a stiff snow, and mix it lightly to the mixture in the saucepan when it is a little cool.

6. 6

   Rinse the large pudding basin in cold water, immediately pour in the mixture, stand it in the cooler and when required for serving turn it out gently onto a plate.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

the juice of one lime or orange and the yolks of eggs. Let it boil slowly for eight minutes, stirring all the time, put it aside to cool. 3. Beat up the white of the eggs to a stiff snow, and mix it lightly to the mixture in the saucepan when it is a little cool. Rinse the large pudding basin in cold water, immediately pour in the mixture, stand it in the cooler and when required for serving turn it out gently on to a plate. Chocolate Pudding. (II). 2 good tablespoons cornflour. 12 lumps or 3 tablespoons 5 teaspoons cocoa. sugar. 1 pint milk

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