Maizena Pudding flavoured with Lemon

Ingredients

• 3 heaped table-spoonfuls of Maizena
• 14 pints of boiling water
• 3oz. of butter
• 12oz. of caster sugar
• the yolks of five eggs
• the whites of two
• the grated peel and strained-juice of three large lemons
• 2 table-spoonfuls of caster sugar

Method

1. 1

   Mix Maizena with cold water, stir in boiling water, boil for 7-8 minutes.

2. 2

   Beat butter and sugar until creamy, mix with Maizena.

3. 3

   Whip yolks and whites of eggs, stir into mixture with lemon peel and juice.

4. 4

   Butter a dish, line with crust, pour in mixture, bake in moderate oven.

5. 5

   Beat egg whites with sugar, spread over pudding, return to oven until browned.

6. 6

   Serve cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 450. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Maizena Pudding flavoured with Lemon. — (1) Mix 3 heaped table-spoonfuls of Maizena smoothly with a small quantity of cold water, then stir in 14 pints of boiling water, pour it into a lined saucepan, and boil for seven or eight minutes, stirring all the time. Warm 3oz. of butter and beat it until creamy with 12oz. of caster sugar, then mix the Maizena with it and beat until nearly cold. Whip the yolks of live eggs and the whites of two, and stir them into the above mixture, also mix in the grated peel and strained -juice of three large lemons. Butter a shallow dish, line it with a rich crust, pour the Maizena mixture into it, and bake in a moderate oven. Beat the whites of two eggs and 2 table-spoonfuls of caster sugar

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