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Polly's Pudding

From 365 desserts, 1900

Custard Sauce: One pint boiling milk, yolks of 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful cornstarch rubbed smooth in a little cold milk, 1 tablespoonful sugar rubbed in the eggs. Boil in a double boiler.

Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from 365 desserts (1900) by Harriet Schuyler Nelson, page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Polly's Pudding. Put a layer of sponge-cake crumbs in a dish; then a layer of jam; then another layer of cake crumbs ; then 1 of sweetened cocoanut, and another layer of cake crumbs

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