The egg may be omitted if preferred.
Rice Pudding.
_Ingredients_--1 pint of milk.
2 tablespoonfuls of rice.
2 tablespoonfuls of sugar.
_Method._--Wash the rice and put it in a pie-dish with the sugar.
Pour the milk over it and let it soak for an hour.
Then bake in a moderate oven for one hour, or more, until the rice is quite cooked.
If eggs are used the rice must be simmered in the milk before they are added, and then poured into the pie-dish.
Tapioca Pudding.
Make like a rice pudding.
Semolina Pudding.
_Ingredients_--1 pint of milk.
2 tablespoonfuls of semolina.
1 tablespoonful of moist sugar.
An egg, if liked.
_Method._--Simmer the semolina in the milk, with the sugar, stirring until it thickens.
Then beat in the egg.
Put in a pie-dish, and bake for half an hour.
Swiss Apple Pudding.
_Ingredients_-- lb. of bread-crumbs.
3 oz. of suet, finely chopped.
lb. of apples, finely minced.
lb. of sugar.
The juice and grated rind of one lemon.
1 egg well beaten.
_Method._--Mix all the ingredients well together, and bake in a pie-dish for one hour.
Light Sultana Pudding.
_Ingredients_--3 eggs.
Their weight in each--butter, flour, and sugar.
lb. of sultanas.
The grated rind of a lemon.
_Method._--Beat the butter to a cream.
Mix in gradually the flour and sugar, alternately with the eggs, which should be well beaten.
Then add the sultanas, well cleaned, and the grated lemon rind.
Steam for three hours.
Fun Pudding.
_Ingredients_--1 lb. of apples.
2 tablespoonfuls of apricot jam.
2 tablespoonfuls of sugar.
1 oz. of butter.
2 dessertspoonfuls of arrowroot.
1 pint of milk.
_Method._--Peel and core the apples, and slice them very finely.
Lay them at the bottom of a pie-dish, and sprinkle some sugar over them.
Put the butter about them in little pieces, and spread over the apricot jam.
Boil the milk, with the remainder of the sugar, and then stir it into the arrowroot, mixed smoothly with cold milk.
When it thickens, pour over the apricot and apples, and bake for half an hour.
Sweet Custard Pudding.
_Ingredients_--Some apricot jam.
3 eggs.
1 pint of hot milk.
3 tablespoonfuls of castor or moist sugar.
The grated rind of a lemon.
A little pastry.
_Method._--Line a pie-dish neatly with the pastry, and spread the jam at the bottom.
Beat the eggs with the milk and sugar, and pour over the jam.
Bake in a very moderate oven for about one hour.