Winter Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 pint of very fine bread-crumbs
• 1 quart of milk
• 1 teacupful of sugar
• 4 yolks of eggs well beaten
• grated rind of 1 lemon
• a lump of butter about the size of an egg

Method

1. 1

   Mix all this well together in a dish, and bake it till just set (if cooked too much it will be watery).

2. 2

   Whip up 4 whites of eggs to a stiff froth; then whisk in a teacupful of castor sugar, mixed with the juice of 1 lemon.

3. 3

   Now turn out the pudding; spread over it a layer of jam or jelly, pour over the whisked whites, and bake slightly.

4. 4

   Serve cold with cream.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Wholesome cookery (1887) by Marie de Joncourt, page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Winter Pudding. 1 pint of very fine bread-crumbs, 1 quart of milk, 1 teacupful of sugar, 4 yolks of eggs well beaten, grated rind of 1 lemon, a lump of butter about the size of an egg

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