Hot Puddings
Albemarle Pudding
4 ozs. butter
4 ozs. powdered sugar
3 eggs
1 lemon
³⁄₄ lb. flour
Raisins
Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar and rind of a lemon. Beat well. Add the well-beaten yolks and flour alternately, beating continually. When quite smooth, add the juice of the lemon, and the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Butter a mould, and line the top of it with raisins. Pour in the mixture, and steam an hour and a half. Serve with a wine sauce.
*Apple and Apricot Charlotte
6 large apples
Butter, the size of a walnut
Sugar
The finely peeled rind of a lemon
¹⁄₂ lb. apricot jam
Peel and core the apples. Cut in quarters. Stew with the butter, and sufficient sugar to sweeten, until tender, taking care not to let them burn.
Warm the jam in a saucepan, and put through a sieve. Add to the apples, and stir well together.
Line a buttered mould with strips of thin bread which have been dipped in melted butter. Fill in with the apple and apricot mixture. Cover with a round of bread also dipped in butter. Bake about twenty minutes, or until the bread is well coloured.
Apple Custard
6 large apples
3 eggs
6 table-spoons powdered sugar
1 pint milk
Pare and core the apples. Fill the centre of each with sugar and bake, being careful that they do not break. Or they can be stewed whole.
Make a custard (see p. 15) of the yolks, milk and half the sugar.
Pour it over the apples, which should be arranged in a dish. Bake slowly until the custard is firm. Whip the whites till frothy. Add the rest of the sugar gradually, and beat well together. Spread this over the custard, and put in a moderate oven. Remove directly the meringue is browned.
*Bread and Rum Pudding
2 wine glasses rum
4 eggs
6 ozs. powdered sugar
6 ozs. bread crumbs
6 ozs. currants
¹⁄₂ lb. candied peel
4 ozs. butter
3 table-spoons milk
Melt the butter, mix it with the sugar, bread crumbs and yolks. Stir well together. Add the currants, milk, chopped peel and one glass of rum. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, and stir them in. Put in a buttered mould. Steam three hours. When cooked, pour another glass of rum over the pudding, and serve.
*Cherry Pudding
4 eggs
1 pint milk
2 table-spoons of flour
Cherries
Sugar
Stone enough cherries to fill a basin, which must be well buttered. Add sufficient sugar to sweeten well. Make a smooth batter of the well-beaten eggs, flour and milk. Pour it over the cherries, filling the basin. Cover with a cloth, and boil one and a half hours. Serve with a fruit sauce.
Christmas Plum Pudding—I
1¹⁄₂ lb. suet
1 lb. flour
¹⁄₂ lb. bread crumbs
2 lbs. raisins
1 lb. sultanas
¹⁄₂ lb. currants
¹⁄₂ lb. mixed candied peel
¹⁄₂ lb. sugar
1 salt-spoon salt
Grated rind and juice of three lemons
¹⁄₂ nutmeg, grated
4 blanched and pounded bitter almonds
1 tea-spoon mixed spice
1 ” ground cinnamon
¹⁄₂ ” ” ginger
1 pint brandy or sherry
5 eggs beaten up with ¹⁄₂ pint milk
Orange juice, if liked
Chop the suet very fine. Mix the sugar and spices. Add the suet, well-prepared fruit, eggs and brandy. Let the mixture stand until the following day, stirring well at intervals. Put the mixture into well-buttered basins, filling them to within two inches of the top. Cover with buttered paper, and over this tie a well-floured cloth.
Boil for eight hours.
Christmas Plum Pudding—II
For each Pudding
¹⁄₄ lb. raisins
¹⁄₄ lb. sultanas
¹⁄₄ lb. currants
¹⁄₄ lb. orange peel
¹⁄₄ lb. lemon peel
¹⁄₄ lb. almonds (chopped)
¹⁄₄ lb. chopped preserved ginger
¹⁄₄ lb. sugar
5 ozs. chopped suet
3 heaped table-spoons flour
5 eggs
Spices, brandy or whisky to taste
Salt
Boil twelve hours.
*Dutch Apple Cake
1 pint flour
¹⁄₂ tea-spoon carbonate of soda
1 tea-spoon cream of tartar
¹⁄₄ cup butter
1 egg
1 scant cup milk
4 sour apples
3 table-spoons powdered sugar
Mix and sift the dry materials together. Rub in the butter. Beat the egg. Mix it with the milk. Add to the flour and stir well in. Spread the dough half an inch thick in a shallow tin. Pare the apples and core them. Cut them into eighths. Put these in rows, pressing the thin edge down into the dough. Sprinkle the sugar over the apples. Bake in a hot oven twenty to thirty minutes. Serve with lemon sauce (see p. 85).
Fig Pudding
¹⁄₄ lb. butter
¹⁄₄ lb. figs
¹⁄₄ lb. bread crumbs
2 eggs
Chop the figs and stew them in the butter for quarter of an hour. Beat the eggs well. Mix them with the bread crumbs. Add the figs and butter. Steam on a buttered mould three hours.
Friar’s Omelet
Apples
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
Juice of half a lemon
Bread crumbs
Steam several sour apples. Mash them and then drain them until quite dry. Take one pint of this pulp, and when cool add to it the three well-beaten yolks, the sugar, lemon juice, and the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Brown some very fine bread crumbs in a little butter. Sprinkle the bottom and sides of a well-buttered pudding dish with them. Pour in the mixture. Cover with bread crumbs. Bake twenty minutes. Serve with brown sugar and cream.
*Gooseberry Pudding
3 cups gooseberries
³⁄₄ lb. butter
³⁄₄ lb. powdered sugar
8 eggs
4 sponge-fingers
Stew the gooseberries in water until tender. Do not let them break. Take them out and drain. Then put them through a fine sieve.
Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar and beat again. Stir in the gooseberry pulp, the well-beaten eggs and the sponge-fingers finely crushed. Mix well and bake in a pudding dish for thirty minutes.
Ginger Pudding
¹⁄₂ lb. flour
6 ozs. suet
1 table-spoon brown sugar
2 table-spoons golden syrup
1 tea-spoon baking powder
2 eggs
A little milk
Sift the baking powder with the flour. Beat the eggs until creamy. Mix all well together. Steam two and a half hours.
*Italian Mousse
12 yolks
4 wine glasses Madeira or light white wine
6 ozs. powdered sugar
A pinch of powdered cinnamon
A little lemon juice
Beat well together. Pour into an enamelled sauce-pan and stand it in a larger vessel containing hot water. Beat continually with a whisk until the mixture froths and rises. Serve immediately in glasses.
*Little Citron Puddings
¹⁄₂ pint of cream
1 table-spoon sifted flour
2 ozs. powdered sugar
Nutmeg
3 yolks
Mix the cream, flour, sugar and a very little nutmeg together until quite smooth. Add the well-beaten yolks. Butter five small tea-cups or moulds and line with very thin pieces of citron. Pour in the mixture, but do not fill quite full. Bake in a fairly quick oven.
Turn out the puddings and serve at once.
Marmalade Pudding
2 eggs
Their weight in flour, butter and powdered sugar
1 table-spoon marmalade
1 tea-spoon baking-powder
Sift the flour and baking-powder together. Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar and beat again. Add the flour, marmalade and well-beaten yolks. Beat the whites to a stiff froth and add them last. Pour into a buttered basin and steam for an hour and a half. Turn out and spread with a little marmalade. Serve with a sweet sauce.
Mousse à la Mangara
¹⁄₄ lb. powdered sugar
6 eggs
Wine glass of kirsch
Beat the sugar and eggs together until creamy and light. Add the kirsch and stand in a sauce-pan of hot water. Set over a slow fire and stir continually until the mixture thickens. It must not boil. Take off the fire and add the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Serve at once.
Palace Pudding
¹⁄₄ lb. butter
¹⁄₄ lb. castor sugar
3 eggs
¹⁄₂ tea-spoon vanilla
¹⁄₄ lb. flour
Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar and well-beaten eggs. Beat thoroughly. Add the flour. When well mixed add the vanilla. Butter a mould. Sprinkle it with powdered sugar. Steam one hour. Before turning out, let the pudding stand for a minute or two.
*Pine-Apple and Rice Mould
¹⁄₂ lb. rice
1 pint milk
3 eggs
¹⁄₂ lb. pine-apple
Syrup
¹⁄₄ lb. tinned apricots
2 table-spoons powdered sugar
1 table-spoon kirsch
Cook the rice in the milk in a double boiler until it is very tender and the milk is all absorbed. Cut the pine-apple in small pieces and let it simmer for several minutes in a little syrup (see p. 151).
Beat three whole eggs well together. Add them to the rice and then the pine-apple. When well mixed pour into a buttered mould. Bake for about half-an-hour.
Mash the apricots. Add the sugar. When melted pass through a sieve. Add the kirsch, pour over the pudding.
Plum Pudding
¹⁄₄ lb. butter
¹⁄₂ lb. powdered sugar
1 gill cream
1 gill rum
¹⁄₂ lb. chopped suet
1 cup chopped raisins
1 cup currants
¹⁄₄ lb. chopped citron
6 eggs
1 tea-spoon ground spices
Bread-crumbs
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream. Add the rum and cream. Beat well. Add the suet and well-floured fruit. Beat the eggs together till very light. Add then the spices and sufficient fine bread-crumbs to make a stiff batter. Pour into a buttered mould. Boil five hours.
*Strawberry Shortcake
¹⁄₂ lb. flour
3 ozs. butter
1 table-spoon sugar
2 tea-spoons baking-powder
Milk
Strawberries, sugar and butter
Sift the flour, sugar and baking-powder together twice. Rub in the butter. Add sufficient milk to make a dough (about three-quarters of a cup), mixing lightly with a knife. Put on a floured board and roll out lightly. Divide in two. Bake in two well-buttered round tins (about eight inches in diameter) in a hot oven for twelve minutes. When baked, split open and spread with plenty of butter and a thick layer of crushed and well-sweetened strawberries. Serve at once very hot.
The strawberries should be prepared about half an hour before they are needed.