The Skilful Cook Part 64

The Skilful Cook Part 64

_Method._--Soak the bread in cold water until soft.


Squeeze it quite dry, and beat up with a fork.


Pour the boiling milk over.


Stir in the sugar and eggs, well beaten.


Then stir in the currants.


Bake in a pie-dish for two hours.


Baked Plum Pudding.


_Ingredients_-- lb. of finely-chopped suet.


lb. of flour.


lb. of raisins, stoned and chopped.


lb. of currants.


2 oz. of candied peel.


2 oz. of moist sugar.


1 egg.


2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder.


1 gill, or more, of milk.


_Method._--Put all the dry ingredients into a basin, and mix with the egg and milk; it must be quite stiff.


Bake in a greased baking-tin for one hour.


For serving, cut into squares, and dust them over with castor sugar.


Treacle Pudding.


_Ingredients_--1 lb. of flour.


lb of finely-chopped suet.


lb. of treacle.


oz. of ground ginger.


1 egg.


2 oz. of moist sugar.


1 gill of milk.


1 teaspoonful of baking powder.


_Method._--Put the dry ingredients into a basin.


Mix with the treacle and the egg well beaten with the milk.


Boil in a greased basin for four hours.


The egg may be omitted, if liked.


Plum Pudding.


_Ingredients_-- lb. of finely-chopped suet.


lb. of currants.


lb. of raisins, stoned and chopped.


6 oz. of flour.


6 oz. of bread-crumbs.


2 oz. of candied peel.


3 oz. of sugar.


1 gill of milk.


2 eggs.


teaspoonful of baking powder.


_Method._--Put the dry ingredients into a basin, and mix with the eggs and milk, well beaten together.


Boil in a cloth or basin for four hours.


Windsor Pudding.


_Ingredients_--2 oz. of semolina.


1 oz. of candied peel.


pint of milk.


lb. of treacle.


_Method._--Mix the milk smoothly with the semolina.


Then put it into a saucepan and stir until it thickens.


Add the treacle and candied peel; pour it into a pie-dish.


Bake for about thirty minutes.


Spring Pudding.


_Ingredients_--1 pint of gooseberries.


pint of milk.


4 oz. of moist sugar.


Slices of bread-and-b.u.t.ter.


_Method._--Stew the gooseberries with a very little water and the sugar for ten minutes.


Dip the bread into the milk, and lay a slice at the bottom of a pie-dish.


Put a layer of gooseberries on it.