PUDDINGS

Apricot Tapioca Pudding (4)

• Apricots, 6

• Sugar, ½ cup

• Pearl tapioca, 1 cup

• Salt, ½ teaspoon

• Boiling water, 3 cups

Cover the tapioca with cold water and soak for one hour. Drain off the cold water, add the boiling water and salt, and cook over water (in a double boiler if you have one) until the tapioca is transparent, and no hard center portion remains. This will require about 30 minutes. Place the apricots in a buttered baking dish. Add sugar to the tapioca, pour this over the apricots, add apricot juice, and bake in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes. Cool and serve. If dried apricots are to be used, they should be soaked over night or several hours in cold water sufficient to cover them. Cook in the water in which they have soaked until they are tender.

Cereal Pudding (8)

• Left over cereal, 3½ cups

• Apple sauce, ½ cup
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• Apple, 1

• Sugar, 1 tablespoon

• Butter, 1 tablespoon

• Bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons

Put a layer of cereal in the bottom of a buttered baking dish, then a layer of apples or sauce, then sugar if the sauce has not been sweetened. Then put in another layer of cereal, cover with buttered crumbs. Bake 30 minutes if it has apple sauce in it, one hour if raw apples are used. Serve with cream.

Cereal Date Pudding (11)

• Cereal (half corn meal and half farina), ¾ cup

• Boiling water, 3 cups

• Salt, ¾ teaspoon

• Chopped dates, 1 cup

• Oleomargarine, 1 tablespoon

• Corn syrup (light), ½ cup

• Egg, 1

Stir the cereal mixture gradually into the boiling water, to which the salt has been added. Cook directly over the flame for about five minutes, stirring constantly, and then cook over water for one and one-half hours. Add oleomargarine, syrup, egg, well beaten, and chopped dates. Turn into a greased baking dish and bake for about 30 minutes in a moderate oven (360-390° F.).

Chocolate Bread Pudding (11)

• Bread, broken in small pieces, 2 ½ cups

• Corn syrup (dark), ½ cup

• Brown sugar, ¼ cup

• Egg, 1

• Salt, ¼ teaspoon

• Chocolate, 2 squares

• Milk, 1 ½ cups

• Hot water, 1 ½ cups

• Vanilla, ¾ teaspoon

Soak bread in milk; add syrup, brown sugar, egg, well beaten, and salt. Melt chocolate in water; add gradually to bread mixture. Add vanilla. Bake in custard cups, set in hot water, in a moderate oven.

Eggless Steamed Pudding (11)

• Flour, 1⅔ cups

• Soda, ½ teaspoon

• Salt, ¼ teaspoon

• Cloves, ¼ teaspoon

• Allspice, ¼ teaspoon

• Nutmeg, ¼ teaspoon

• Cinnamon, ½ teaspoon

• Hardened vegetable fat, 3 tablespoons

• Molasses, ½ cup

• Milk, ½ cup

• Raisins (seeded and cut in pieces), 1 cup

Sift together the flour, soda, salt, and spices; add the raisins. To milk add molasses and melted fat; add liquid mixture gradually to dry ingredients. Stir thoroughly. Turn into greased molds, filling them a little over half full; cover and steam for about two and one-half hours. Serve with pudding sauce or milk. (Baking powder cans are satisfactory molds for steamed puddings.)

Honey Pudding (5)

• Honey, ½ cup

• Bread crumbs, 6 ounces

• Milk, ½ cup

• Rind of half a lemon

• Ginger, ½ teaspoon

• Eggs, 2

• Butter, 2 tablespoons

Mix the honey and the bread crumbs and add the milk, seasonings, and yolks of the eggs. Beat the mixture thoroughly and then add the butter and the whites of the eggs well beaten. Steam for about two hours in a pudding mold which is not more than three-quarters full.

Indian Pudding (3)

• Milk, 1 quart

• Molasses, ½ cup

• Corn meal, ⅓ cup

• Ginger, 2 teaspoons

• Salt, 1 teaspoon

• Cold milk, 1 cup

Pour milk, scalded, over meal, and cook 20 minutes; add salt, ginger, and molasses. Cook slowly in a buttered baking dish two hours. When half done, add the cold milk and finish cooking.

Baked Indian and Apple Pudding (8)

• Corn meal, ¼ cup

• Milk, 2 cups

• Salt, ½ teaspoon

• Ginger, ½ teaspoon

• Molasses, ¼ cup

• Apple, 1

Sift corn meal slowly into the scalded milk, stirring constantly. Cook in double boiler 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add salt, ginger, and molasses. Put into greased baking dish and bake one hour in a slow oven, stirring occasionally. Slice apple and stir into pudding. Bake until apple is tender.

Prune Brown Betty (11)

• Cooked prunes, stoned and cut into halves, 2½ cups

• Bread crumbs (dry), ½ cup

• Corn syrup (dark), ¼ cup

• Lemon juice, 3 tablespoons

• Grated rind of ¼ lemon

• Cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon

• Salt, ½ teaspoon

• Oleomargarine, 1 tablespoon

• Prune juice, ½ cup

Mix together heated prune juice, fat, salt, corn syrup, lemon juice, lemon rind, and cinnamon. Moisten bread crumbs with part of this mixture. Into a greased baking dish put alternate layers of bread crumbs and prunes, pouring part of liquid mixture over each layer of prunes. Bake in a moderate oven about 45 minutes.

Rice Pudding (11)

• Rice, ¼ cup

• Milk, ¾ cup

• Corn syrup (light), 2 tablespoons

• Nutmeg, ¼ teaspoon

• Raisins, ¾ cup

Cook the rice in boiling salted water, until soft. Pour off water, add milk, syrup, nutmeg, and raisins. Bake in a moderate oven (370-380° F.) for 40 minutes.

Spiced Pudding (11)

• Browned crusts of bread, 1 cup

• Scalded milk, 2 cups

• Molasses, ½ cup

• Raisins, ½ cup

• Salt, ½ teaspoon

• Nutmeg, ¼ teaspoon

• Cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon

• Cloves, ¼ teaspoon

Soak the crusts in the milk until soft. Add molasses, salt, spices, and raisins. Bake in a moderate oven (360-380° F.), stirring occasionally at first. Serve with milk or cream.