Venus Pudding
From The housewife's referee, 1898
Serves 4
Reserve some custard for sauce with ginger syrup.
Presented as published in 1898. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from The housewife's referee (1898) by Harriet Anne de Salis, University of Leeds Library, page 151. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Venus Pudding. — Butter a quart mould, and ornament with candied ginger. Make a custard of eight yolks of eggs and the whites of four, three-quarters of a pint of cream with sugar to taste ; dissolve three-quarters of an ounce of isinglass in sufficient milk to fill up the mould. When cold add a glass of rum
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