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Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book

1884

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Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Soak one cup of stale bread crumbs in one pint of hot milk add one tablespoonful of butter, one cup of sugar, one saltspoonful of salt, and 07ie saltspoorful of spice. When cool, add three eggs, well beaten. Add two cups of fruitBread and Fruit Pudding, either chopped apples, raisins, currants, canned peaches, or apricots, — one, or a mixture of two or more varieties. When using canned fruit, drain it from the syrup, and use the latter in making a sauce. Yarj^ the sugar according to the fruit. Turn into a buttered pud- ding-mould, and steam two hours. N'o, 2. — Beat t\iQ yolks of three eggs, add one cup and The Boston Cook Book. 333 a half of s%igar^ the grated /mc? and J^<^C6 of one lemon ^ one saltspoonf'ul of salt^ one cup each of chopped apples^ currants^ and grated bread crumbs. Mix well, then add the whites of the eggs., beaten stiff. Boil in a buttered pudding-mould three hours, or bake two hours. Serve with lemon oy foamy sauce. Eve's Pudding. — Add half a cup of butter or one cup of chopped suet to the preceding rule. Bird's-l^est Pudding. Six or seven apples., cored and pared, and put into a buttered pudding-dish. Mix five teaspoonfuls of flour and OThe teaspoonful of salt., wet it to a smooth paste with cold milk., and add the yolks of three eggsBird's-nest Pudding., well beaten, then the lohites., and more milk, using one pint in all. Pour it over the apples, and bake one hour. Serve with hard or creamy sauce. Apple Tapioca Pudding. Pick over and wash three quarters of a cup of pearl tapioca. Pour one quart of boiling water over it, and cook in the double boiler till transparent ; stir often, and add half a teaspoonful of salt. Core and pare seven apples. Put them in a round baking-dish, and fill the cores with sugar and leynon juice. Pour the tapioca over them and bake till the apples are very soft. Serve hot or cold, with sugar and cream. A delicious variation may be made b}^ using half pears, or canned quinces, and half ' apples': Apple Meringue. Core, pare, and bake seven apples, on a shallow plate, till soft, but not till broken. Beat the yolks of three eggs; add three tabl^spoonftds of sugar., a little salt^ and one pint of scalded milkApple Meringue. Pour it over the baked apples. Bake till the custard is firm. When cool, add a meringue made of the whites of three eggs., beaten till foamy ; add three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar gradually, flavor 334 The Boston Cook Book. with lemon^ and beat till stiff. Set the pudding-dish on a board in the oven, and brown the meringue. The whites of eggs for a meringue should be cool, and beaten till light and foamy, but not stiff; then add sugar gradually, in the proportion of one tablespoonful for each egg^ and beat till stiff enough to keep its shape. iVo. 2. — Pare and core the apples, fill the cavity with sugar and spice mixed, or with sugar^ butter^ and lemon. Bake the apples, cover with a meringue made with the whites of the eggs ; make the yolks into a boiled custard for a sauce, or serve with cream. This may be served hot or cold. Brown the meringue by holding a hot stove cover over it. Apple Porcupine.