Sago Pudding, Boiled (superior)

Ingredients

• an ounce and a half of sago
• a pint of milk
• an ounce of blanched and pounded almonds
• the thin rind of a lemon
• the yolks of five and the whites of two eggs
• a glassful of sherry or madeira

Method

1. 1

   Soak sago, boil in milk with flavoring.

2. 2

   Cool, mix with crushed biscuits, beaten yolks, sugar, and sherry.

3. 3

   Boil as before, let stand, and serve with wine sauce or fruit syrup.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1638. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a pint of milk into a saucepan with the thin rind of half a lemon, and let it simmer gently until it is pleasantly flavoured. .Strain it, mix with it three table-spoonfuls of well-washed sago and two table-spoonfuls of sugar, and then boil the mixture, stirring gently till it is thick and smooth. Let it cool, then add two well-beaten eggs. Turn it into a well-buttered basin which it will quite fill, lay a buttered paper on the top, and tie a floured cloth securely over it. Plunge it into a saucepan with plent}- of boiling water, and keep it boiling till done enough. Move it about occasionally for the first quarter of an hour. Let it stand in the basin a few minutes, then turn it out carefully, and garnish with jelly, or send wine sauce to table with it. Time to Ijoil, one hour. Probable cost, 8d. Sufficient for four or five persons. Sago Pudding Boiled (superior). —Soak an ounce and a half of sago for an hour. Strain it, and boil it in ,a pint of millc till it is clear, and to flavoiu- it add an ounce of blanched and pounded almonds, the thin rind of a lemon, or an inch of stick cinnamon. Pour the sago out, remove the flavouring ingredients, and stir till cool. Beat it up with two sponge biscuits crushed to powder, the well-whisked yolks of five and the whites of two eggs, a little sugar, and a glassful of sherry or madeira

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