Minute Pudding No. 1

Ingredients

• a quart of sweet milk
• a pinch of salt
• a piece of butter as large as half an egg
• a dish of sifted flour

Method

1. 1

   Set saucepan or deep frying pan on the stove, the bottom and sides well buttered, put into it a quart of sweet milk, a pinch of salt and a piece of butter as large as half an egg; when it boils have ready a dish of sifted flour, stir it into the boiling milk, sifting it through your fingers, a handful at a time, until it becomes smooth and quite thick.

2. 2

   Turn it into a dish that has been dipped in water.

3. 3

   Make a sauce very sweet to serve with it.

4. 4

   Maple molasses is fine with it.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 267. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

INUTE PUDDING. No. 1. Set saucepan or deep frying pan on the stove, the bottom and sides well buttered, put into it a quart of sweet milk, a pinch of salt and a piece of butter as large as half an egg ; when it boils have ready a dish of sifted flour

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.