Sponge Pudding

Ingredients

• Place on the fire in a double boiler 1 pint of rich milk
• ^ cup of sugar
• and a little salt
• Mix together half a cup each of flour
• and butter

Method

1. 1

   Add to the boiling milk to make a stiff batter.

2. 2

   Remove from the fire.

3. 3

   When partially cool, add the beaten yolks of 5 eggs; stir the whites to a froth, add them, stirring well.

4. 4

   Pour the mixture into a buttered pudding dish and place the dish in a pan half filled with water that is boiling; set in a brisk oven.

5. 5

   Bake from 30 to 45 minutes.

6. 6

   Test it with a splint.

7. 7

   Serve as soon as done with this sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 137. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sponge Pudding. Place on the fire in a double boiler 1 pint of rich milk, ^ cup of sugar and a little salt. Mix together half a cup each of flour KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. 229 • and butter

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