Sunset Pudding

Ingredients

• 4 sheets of isinglass
• 1 gill of cold water
• 3/4 box of gelatin
• 1 gill of cold water
• 1 1/2 pts. of boiling water
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 1/2 cup of Sherry wine

Method

1. 1

   Soak isinglass and gelatin in cold water.

2. 2

   Pour boiling water into each bowl, stir until dissolved, then add lemon juice, sugar, and Sherry.

3. 3

   Strain, cool, and beat until stiff.

4. 4

   Mold and serve with whipped cream or soft custard.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 368. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 cups of sugar; stir 10 minutes; add 2 teaspoons vinegar; stir 5 minutes; 1 teaspoon vanilla; stir 15 minutes. Bake in a moderate oven Yi hr., in 2 sheets. Serve with cream. — Mrs. Klug, 25 N. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE.— Cream together 1 cup of sugar, 1 tablespoon of butter; add 3 eggs, beaten very light; mix thoroughly, and add 3 cups of flour, sifted 3 times with 1 heaping teaspoon of baking powder, with a little salt. Stir in, and add enough milk or cream to make it roll out easily. Bake in deep tin plates. With 3 pts. of strawberries mix 1 cup of sugar, and spread between the laj^ers of cake. Serves 6. — Mrs. Lighthart, 811 X. 19th Ave., Maywood, 111. WINTER STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE.— Cream together 1 cup sugar and y^ cup butter; add 2 beaten eggs, and a pinch of salt, and beat thoroughly; add 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour, in which 2 teaspoons of baking powder has been sifted. Stir thoroughly, and bake in 3 layers. Remove the juice from a can of strawberries and put fruit between the layers. Place Ya, cup of the juice on the stove and add enough sugar to make a good thick syrup, and cook until it threads; add to the beaten white of 1 ^q,%, pouring gently, and stirring constantly; use to frost the cake. Any kind of fruit may be used instead of strawberries. — Mrs. Chas. F, Miller, 1509 St. Charles Ave., Maywood, 111, SUET PUDDING,— Mix together 1 cup molasses, 1 cup milk, 1 cup suet, 1 cup currants and raisins, little baking powder. Steam 3 hrs.— Mrs. Klug, 25 N. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111. SUNSET PUDDING.— Break 4 sheets of isinglass into bits, put in a bow^l with a gill of cold water. Put 3^ box of gelatin in another bowl with 1 gill of cold water. Let both soak 3 or 4 hr.-^. Have read}'- 1^/2 pts. of boiling water, and pour half into each bowl, stirring until the isinglass and gelatin are dissolved. Put into each bowl the juice of 1 lemon, ^ cup of sugar and M cup of Sher- ry wine.

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.