From these cookbooks we get a trip around the United Kingdom through the pudding recipes found in them. There are all kinds of them listed; 37 different puddings in the first book and 57 in the second one. I will list them once a month so you can enjoy trying them out one at a time. In England a “Pudding” is not always what we in the US would call a “Pudding”. Today if I say pudding, we think of things like the Jell-O pudding cups you can get in the store or the powdered stuff you can get in boxes. In Great Britain, it is often what ever is for dessert that day, in their media shows you will quite often hear someone asking “What is for Pudding today?” meaning what are they having for dessert.
But we also get the lovely and famous “Christmas Plumb Pudding”; that is only a small part in the family of “Puddings”. They go back into history, it would be difficult to pinpoint where they originally came from, the boiled pudding can be seen in all kinds of cook books going back to the Romans and all throughout the history of Great Britain and Europe.
#17 Bread Pudding Scald crusts etc. with boiling water. Drain & press water out. Beat up with a fork & add 2 beaten eggs sugar to taste & a little nutmeg & a few currants time. Take a look at all the other recipes from this book. https://kitchenrecipetreasures.com/?s=Britain+puddings I really like unusual sounding recipes, especially […]
#10 Cocoa Nut Pudding ¼ lb. of grated cocoa nut, ¼ lb. well pounded sugar, 2 oz clarified butter, 1 lemon juice and pulp; mix well together and add the white and yolk of 3 eggs, beaten separately. Bake in a moderately heated oven. Mallory A Trip through Britain with Puddings, 2nd book dated 1880 […]
A Trip through Britain with Puddings, 2nd book dated 1880 #9 Water Puddings ¼ lb. of butter boiled in a ½ pint of water till quite melted, sugar and lemon peel to your taste. When cold mix in ¼ lb. of flour and 3 eggs, beat the whites and yolks separately. Butter your cups and […]
A trip through Britain with Puddings Book 1 #16 Newcastle Pudding Ingredients: 2 oz butter 3 oz castor sugar. Beat together into a cream. To 1 or 2 eggs (with a little milk) add 3oz flour. Beat these well into butter & sugar. Flavor with coconut or vanilla. 1 level teaspoon baking powder. Steam in […]
#8 Lemon Pudding The rind and juice of 1 lemon, ¼ lb. loaf sugar, ¼ lb. of butter melted, 6 yolks of eggs. Mix them together make a paste, bake it 1 hour. Mallory From the same book, Light Paste 1 lb. of flour. Beat the white of an egg to a strong froth, mix […]
#15 Queen of Puddings Ingredients: 2 teacups bread crumbs 1 lemon, the rind grated, 1 pint milk heated. 2 eggs (whites & yolks separate) sugar to taste. 3 tablespoonfuls white pounded sugar for the meringue. Soak the breadcrumbs in the milk add the lemon rind & beaten yolks of the eggs. Sweeten to taste; will […]
#7 Baked Lemon Pudding 3 oz. of butter, 3 oz. of sugar, 4 spoonsful of cream, the rind & juice of a lemon; dissolved in a saucepan the yolks of 3 large eggs, beat & stir them in the saucepan, when thick put in a basin, put a paste in the dish ¾ of an […]
#14 Fish Pudding Take 1 lb. fish from which skin & bone has been removed, Chop 3 oz suet very fine with 3 oz bread crumbs. Pound the fish well in a mortar, chop it very finely, mix it well with the suet & crumbs 2 teaspoonfuls chopped parsley 2 teaspoons salt & ½ teaspoon […]
#13 Colchester Pudding Take a glass dish, put into it a thick layer of jam or stewed fruit, put 1 pint of milk on the fire. Shred into it the rind of 1 lemon paring it finely. Bring the milk to a boil then strain out the rind & sprinkle in 2 oz. large tapioca. […]
#6 Macca?? Pudding (it’s got to be Macaroni) Put ? oz of the pipe short simmered tender with lemon & cinnamon into a dish with 3 yolks of eggs one white & little fresh water, ½ a glass of wine, milk, sugar & nutmeg; bake with a ? around the edge (I had a very […]