Peas Pudding

Ingredients

• 4 lb. split peas
• A pinch of sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 oz. butter
• Pepper and salt

Method

1. 1

   Remove discolored peas, wash them, and tie loosely in a cloth.

2. 2

   Boil for about an hour until soft.

3. 3

   Drain, mash with butter, pepper, salt, sugar, and beaten egg.

4. 4

   Tie tightly in a clean cloth and boil in water for half an hour.

5. 5

   Serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chambers's cookery for young housewives (1894) by Annie M. Griggs, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PEAS PUDDING. TAPIOCA PUDDING- SACO i lb. tapioca. 1 quart milk. 4 pint water. PUDDING. 3 eggs. 2 oz. sugar. 2 oz. butter. Put the tapioca into a basin with the water, and let it stand for some hours to swell. Add the milk, and put all into a saucepan over the fire to boil slowly for about an hour. Stir it frequently, and be careful that it does not burn. Then pour it into a basin, stir into it the butter and eggs well beaten • pour it into a buttered pudding-dish, and bake for about half an hour; or, after adding another egg, steam it in a basin or mould for an hour. Sago pudding may be made in the same manner. BATTER OR YORKSHIRE PUDDING. 4 lb. flour. I 2 eggs. 1 pint milk. I Salt. Put the flour and salt into a basin, add to it half the milk, and mix very smoothly, then add the eggs, and mix all well together. Pour on the rest of the milk, and let it stand for half an hour. Grease a deep baking-tin with dripping from the meat, and pour the batter into it. Place the tin either under roasting meat before the fire, or in the oven. When done, turn the pudding into a dish to be carried to table. The usual custom is to cut the pudding in squares. It should have a nicely-browned appearance. When it is cooked before the lire, either turn the pudding, or place the tin for a short time over the fire, or in the oven, to brown the under side. PEAS PUDDING. 4 lb. split peas. I A pinch of sugar. 1 egg. I 1 oz. butter. Pepper and salt

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