Sweetmeat Pudding

Ingredients

• Cover the dish with a plain puff paste
• 1 oz. of candied orange
• 1 oz. of lemon peel
• 1 oz. of citron
• Beat up 8 yolks of eggs
• and 2 whites
• ½ lb. of sugar
• ½ lb. of melted butter

Method

1. 1

   Slice the candied peels and lay them over the bottom of the dish.

2. 2

   Mix the eggs, sugar, and melted butter together, pour over the sweetmeats, and bake in a moderate oven for an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 484. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

% lb. of sugar, as much butter, a little salt, water, and an egg. This paste may serve for any second course dish. SUGAR PUFFS— Beat up the whites of ten eggs, fill they rise to a high froth ; put them into a mortar, with as much double refined sugar as will make it thick; rub it well round the mortar ; add a few caraway seeds, and take a sheet of wafer cake, and lay it on as broad as a sixpence, and high. Put into a moderate oven for 15 minutes, and they will look white. SULPHUR OINTMENT.— Take of hog's lard prepared, four ounces ; flour of sulphur, an ounce and a half ; crude sal ammoniac, two drachms ; essence of lemon, ten or twelve drops. Make them into an ointmenr. This ointment rubbed upon the parts affected will generally cure the itch. It is both the safest and best ap- plication for that purpose, and when made in this way, has no disagreeable smell. SWEATING DROPS— Take of camphor, saffron, ipecacuanha, opium, Virginian snake root, of each, j oz. ; Hollands gin, pint. Infuse 2 or 3 days. A wonderfully efficacious cure for fever and ague, after suitable evacuants. Dr. Beach says, ‘‘I find this the best medicine for fever and ague of any with which I am acquainted. In two cases this tincture removed the paroxysms where ether remedies failed ; one patient had been under homoeo- pathic treatment for many months. SWEETMEAT PUDDING. — Cover the dish with a plain puff paste ; then take candied orange, or lemon peel, and citron, of each 1 oz. ; slice them thin, and lay them all over the bottom of the dish. Beat up 8 yolks of eggs, and 2 whites, and put to them % lb. of sugar, and % lb. of melted butter.

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