Pine-apple Mould

Ingredients

• 1 gill pine-apple syrup
• 2 whites of eggs
• 4 oz. cornflour
• 1 qt. milk
• 1 cupful pine-apple cut in dice

Method

1. 1

   Put the cornflour into a basin and break it smoothly with a little of the milk.

2. 2

   Heat the rest of the milk in a saucepan, and pour it over the cornflour, stirring all the time.

3. 3

   Then return all to the saucepan, and stir over the fire until boiling.

4. 4

   Simmer slowly from 8 to 10 minutes to cook the cornflour thoroughly.

5. 5

   Meanwhile, cut some tinned pine-apple in small dice, and whip the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth.

6. 6

   When the cornflour is sufficiently cooked, remove the saucepan from the fire and mix in the pine-apple, the syrup, and then add sugar if necessary.

7. 7

   Lastly, stir in the beaten whites very lightly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for every household (1914) by Florence B. Jack, page 702. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pine-apple Mould 1 gill pine-apple syrup. 2 whites of eggs. Sugar to taste. 4 oz. cornflour. 1 qt. milk. 1 cupful pine-apple cut in dice

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