Picnic Pudding

Ingredients

• One cupful sugar
• 1-3 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sweet milk
• 1 1-3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoonful Royal baking powder
• whites of 4 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoonful of pistachio or almond extract

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar, butter, milk, flour, and baking powder.

2. 2

   Add beaten egg whites after mixing.

3. 3

   Bake in a bread pan.

4. 4

   For filling, mix milk, cornstarch, sugar, and egg yolks, thicken, and add chocolate, butter, salt, and vanilla.

5. 5

   Layer with jam made from dried figs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 162. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Picnic Pudding. Pomelo Beverage. Wooden plates, desert forks or spoons, cups and napkins. FRIED CHICKEN. Prepare in usual way; season and dredge thickly with flour; put into frying pan 1 tablespoonful each of butter and lard; when hot arrange the chicken in pan, thickest pieces in center; fry to golden brown over quick fire; turn and brown; then set in a steady, well-heated part of range, but not to fry fast; turn when necessary. In this way the juice is well retained and the meat tender. The bony portions may be served at home. STRAWBERRY ROLLS. Wash and hull 2 boxes of strawberries, drain and slice them, spread on a platter, sprinkle over them a very little lemon juice and 6 tablespoonfuls powdered sugar. Remove crusts from a dozen thin slices of bread; spread with melted but- COOKING AND OTHER RECIPES. 97 ter, then the berries, roll and tie with baby ribbon at each end. Wring- a napkin from cold water, pack the rolls in it, and then fold in a dry napkin. SARDINE SALAD. Dress a pint of sardines (which have been put up in oil,) with a half pint of good mayonnaise, into which has been stirred 2 tablespoonfuls of minced celery; scoop the centers, all seeds, from 6 medium- sized smooth tomatoes; fill the cavities with the salad mixture, and secure each lid with a couple of toothpicks. TAMALE CROQUETTES. Mix together % pint each of oysters, sweet corn, chopped boiled eggs and graham bread crumbs, a beaten egg, a generous sprinkling of cayenne pepper and a level teaspoonful of salt; form, roll in cracker crumbs and plunge (in basket) in boiling fat, or brown nicely on buttered tin in the oven. Drain on brown paper. TWO DOZEN SPICED CUCUMBERS, home made, are always best. DOUBLE-CRUSTED LEMON PIE. The grated rind of 1 and chopped pulp of 2 lemons, rejecting seed and white fiber of rind; 1 tea- cupful of water, 1 tablespoonful (scant) of flour, 6 tablespoonfuls of sugar. Mix the last two, then add water and fruit; make incisions in the upper crust as for other fruit pies. A little baking powder in the crust is an im- provement. PICNIC PUDDING. One cupful sugar, 1-3 cup butter, y2 cup sweet milk, 1 1-3 cups flour, 1 teaspoonful Royal baking powder, whites of 4 eggs, beaten light and added after the other ingredients have been thoroughly mixed; y2 teaspoonful of pistachio or almond ex- tract

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