Puddings and Desserts

"The proof of the pudding lies in the eating."

BREAD PUDDING

Beat 2 eggs well. Mix with this 1~2 pts. milk, 1/2 C. sugar, 1/2 C. raisins, 1 t. vanilla. Pour in baking dish. Spread stale bread well with butter and place in milk. Let this stand for 2 or 3 hours so bread will be well soaked. Bake in medium oven until thickened, then brown with quick fire. Serve with sauce made of 1 c. brown sugar, 2 tb. flour, butter, 2 c. hot water. Serves 6.

CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING

Two c. stale bread crumbs, 1 qt. scalded milk, 3 egg yolks, 1/4 e. sugar, x egg whites, 2 tb. cocoa or 2 squares bitter chocolate, 3/4 t. soda dissolved in 1 t. hot water, 1/4 t. salt. Pour hot milk over bread crumbs, let stand 20 minutes, beat sugar and yolks of eggs together, melt chocolate and soda, then add to milk and bread, also the beaten whites of eggs. Bake 50 minutes. Serve with hard sauce. Two e. powdered sugar, 1/2 C. butter, beat until creamy, flavor with vanilla. This will serve 10 people.

CARROT PUDDING

Chop 1 e. raisins, 1 e. raw potatoes, 1 c. raw carrots in food chopper. Combine this mixture with 2 1/2 C. flour, 1 e. sugar, 1 e. currants, 2 t. baking powder, 1/2 t. cloves. Steam 3 hours. Serve with hard sauce.

CARROT-SUET PUDDING

One c. chopped raw potato, 1 c. chopped raw carrots, 1 c. chopped suet, 1 c. sugar, 1 c. raisins, 1 c. currants, 1 c. nuts, flour, 1 t. soda dissolved in a little hot water or molasses, 1/2 t. salt, 1/2 t. cinnamon, pinch of cloves. Put carrots, potatoes and suet through food chopper, mix all ingredients in a large bowl with your hands. Steam 6 hours. Will serve 12 or 15. Serve with hard sauce or melted grape jelly.

ORANGE PUDDING

Peel and slice 6 small oranges, add /2 C. sugar, make a custard by using 1 pt. milk, 2 eggs or yolks of 3, /2 C. sugar, 2 tb. cornstarch. Cook in double boiler. When cold pour over oranges. Use white for meringue.

ORANGE PUDDING

Peel and slice 4 or 5 large oranges (remove white skin and seeds). Put a layer of sliced orange in baking dish. Sprinkle sugar over it, then another layer of oranges and sugar. Cook in a double boiler until thick, then pour over oranges. One pt. of milk, 1 c. of sugar, 1 round tb. flour, 3 eggs (just yolks). Beat the whites of the 3 eggs stiff. Add 1 tb. sugar, pour this over the pudding and put in oven to brown.

PLUM PUDDING

Two lbs. of raisins seeded, 1 lb. currants, 1 lb. of suet, 1 pt. of milk, 1 t. salt, 1 1/2 C. sugar, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 eggs. Flour to stiffen until spoon will stand straight without falling. Put in bag and boil 4 hours. Sauce hard or liquid.