Queen of Puddings

Ingredients

• six eggs
• one quart of milk
• one pint of bread crumbs
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• half a cupful of granulated sugar
• six table-spoonfuls of powdered sugar
• the grated rind of a lemon
• one cupful of strawberry or raspberry preserve

Method

1. 1

   Soak bread and milk together for two hours, mash fine.

2. 2

   Beat sugar, salt, and yolks of eggs together, add to bread and milk.

3. 3

   Pour into a two-quart pudding-dish and bake slowly for three-quarters of an hour.

4. 4

   Spread preserve over it.

5. 5

   Beat egg whites to a stiff froth, add powdered sugar and lemon rind gradually.

6. 6

   Spread meringue on pudding and bake for twenty minutes with the door open.

7. 7

   Serve hot or cold.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 343. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

o table-spoonfuls of powdered sugar, two eggs, half a teaspoonf ul of salt, and two table-spoonfuls of butter. Take one gill of the water to mix with the corn-starch, and heat the rest to the boiling-point ; then stir in the corn-starch, and cook for ten minutes, stirring occasion- ally. Stir the lemon juice and grated rind into the cooked mixture. Beat the butter, granulated sugar, and egg yolks together. Add the milk, and stir the mixture into the cooked corn-starch. Turn into a pudding-dish, and bake in a slow oven for half an hour. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and then with a spoon beat in the powdered sugar. Spread this over the pudding, and cook for twenty minutes with the oven door open. Set away to cool before serving. The quantities given make a pudding large enough for five or six persons. They may be increased one-half if a larger pudding be desired. Queen of Puddings. The materials are : six eggs, one quart of milk, one pint of bread crumbs, half a teaspoonful of salt, half a cupful of granulated sugar, six table-spoonfuls of pow- 654 MISS PARLOA'S KITCHEN COMPANION. dered sugar, the grated rind of a lemon, and one cupful of strawberry or raspberry preserve

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