Queen of Baked Puddings

Ingredients

• one and a half cups of white sugar
• two cups of fine dried bread crumbs
• five eggs
• one tablespoon of butter
• one quart of fresh rich milk
• half a cup of jelly or jam
• vanilla, rose water or lemon flavoring

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into sugar, beat yolks, stir together with soaked bread crumbs and flavoring.

2. 2

   Bake until custard is set, spread with jam, cover with meringue, and bake until meringue colors.

3. 3

   Serve cold with cream.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Queen of Baked Puddings. — One and a half cups of white sugar, two of fine dried bread crumbs, five egfgs, one tablespoon of butter, vanilla, rose water or lemon flavoring ; one quart of fresh rich milk, and half a cup of jelly or jam. Rub the butter into a cup of sugar, beat the yelks very light, and stir these together; the bread crumbs soaked in the milk ' come next, with the flavoring. Bake this in a large buttered pudding dish, two-thirds full, until the custard is set ; draw to the door of the oven, spread over with jam or other conserve; cover this with a meringue made of the whipped whites and half a cup of sugar. Shut the oven, and bake until the meringue begins to color. Serve cold with cream. In strawberry season you may substitute fresh fruit. Mrs. J. W. Meloney. PUDDINGS AND SAUCES. Bread Pudding, I. — Soak one bowl of broken bread in boiling water, beating very fine with a fork ; one quart of milk, half a cup of sugar, one egg well beaten, one teaspoon of salt, and three teaspoons of lemon extract. Mix all together in a pudding dish, and grate nutmeg over the top. Bake in a steady oven three-quarters of an hour. Afrs. John Woolley. Bread Pudding, II. — One pint of stale bread, one quart of milk, one teaspoon of salt, three tablespoons of sugar, two eggs. Remove the crust from the bread, cut the remainder into small dice and soak in the milk for two hours, stirring well together. Beat the eggs, sugar and salt together, and add to the bread and milk ; turn into a pudding dish, and bake in a slow oven forty-five minutes. Miss Anna Hesse. Cracker Pudding. — One quart of milk, one cup of powdered cracker, five eggs

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