Vermicelli Pudding with Apples

Ingredients

• an exact quart of boiling milk
• four ounces of very fresh vermicelli
• two ounces of fresh butter
• pounded sugar,  lb.
• eggs, 5
• finely grated rind of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Drop vermicelli into boiling milk, stirring to prevent lumps.

2. 2

   Boil until tender and thick, then mix in butter and sugar.

3. 3

   Cool, whisk in eggs and lemon rind, pour into a buttered dish, and cover with quartered apples.

4. 4

   Bake in a gentle oven for 45 minutes or longer until apples are tender.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 388. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

VERMICELLI PUDDING WITH APPLES OR WITHOUT, AND PUDDINGS OF SOUJEE AND SEMOLA. Drop gradually into an exact quart of boiling milk four ounces of very fresh vermicelli, crushing it slightly with one hand and letting it fall gently from the fingers, and stirring the milk with a spoon held in the other hand, to prevent the vermicelli from gathering into lumps. Boil it softly until it is quite tender and very thick, which it will be usually in about twenty minutes, during which time it must be very frequently stirred ; then work in two ounces of fresh butter and four of pounded sugar ; turn the mixture into a bowl or pan, and stir it occasionally until it has cooled down. Whisk five good eggs until they are very light, beat them gradually and quickly to the other ingredients, add the finely grated rind of a lemon or a little lemon-brandy or ratifia, and pour the pudding when nearly cold into a buttered dish, and just cover the surface with apples pared, cored, and quartered ; press them into the pudding-mixture, to the top of which they will immediately rise again, and place the dish in a very gentle oven for three - quarters of an hour, or longer if needed to render the fruit quite tender. The apples should be of the best quality for cooking. This is an exceedingly nice pudding if well made and well baked. The butter can be omitted to simplify it. Milk, 1 quart ; vermicelli, 4 oz. : boiled about 20 minutes. Butter 2 oz. ; (when used) pounded sugar, \ lb. ; eggs, 5

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