462 PRACTICAL AMERICAN COOKERY.
Strain the liquid quickly into the caramel, or browned sugar,
mix them thoroughly, and serve the sauce with the pudding.
BOILED APPLE-PUDDING.
Peel about a quart of apples, cut. them in quarters, remove
the cores, and lay the apples in cold water ; peel, boil, and
mash half a dozen large potatoes, adding to them, while
mashing them, half a pound of butter ; then mix with the po-
tatoes an equal quantity of flour, and sufficient cold water to
form a stiff pastry, and roll it out about an inch thick ; dip a
large pudding-cloth in boiling water, spread it inside a bowl
large enough to contain the apples, leaving the sides of the
cloth hanging over the edges of the bowl ; dredge the cloth
quickly with flour, and then spread the crust over the cloth ;
next drain the apples, put them into the crust, mixing with
them a teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon, and four table-
spoonfuls of brown suga✪ Boiled Apple-Puddingr ; draw the pastry up around the
nipples, enclosing them entirely, and slightly wetting the edges
to make them adhere closely; then tie the pudding-cloth
tightly around the pudding ; put the pudding at once into a
large pot of boiling water, and boil it steadily for three hours,
keeping it well covered ; when the pudding is done, remove
the cloth, and serve it with any good pudding-sauce.
EGG PUDDING-SAUCE.
Beat to a cream one cupful each of butter and sugar, the
yolk of a raw egg, and a glass of wine ; beat the white of an
.egg to a froth ; make the sauce as quickly as possible ; when
the ingredients first named are beaten to a cream, stir in a
gill of boiling water, and the white of the egg, and send the
sauce to the table at once.
BOILED HUCKLEBERRY-PUDDING, WJTff EGGS.
Pick over, wash, and dry a quart of huckleberries, and roll
them in flour ; sift together a quart of flour, and one tea-
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spoonful each of salt and baking-soda; butter a tight tin
pudding-mould ; beat half a cupful of butter and a cupful of
sugar to a cream ; beat two eggS to a cream with a cupful
of sugar ; next put the berries, flour, butter, sugar, and eggs
into a mixing-bowl, and stir in sufficient sour milk to make a
soft dough ; put this dough into the buttered tin mould, close
the mould so that no water can penetrate it, put it into a pot
of actually boiling water, and boil it steadily for three hours ;
then turn the pudding from the mould, and serve it hot with
any good pudding-sauce. The same pudding is excellent if
baked in a buttered dish until the dough is quite done, for
about half an hour.
BERRY SAUCE.
Mash a cupful of ripe berries ; beat a cupful of sugar and
half a cupful of buttA: to a cream ; beat the white of an egg✪ Egg Pudding-Sauce
to a stiff froth ; mix all these ingredients lightly together,
and then serve the sauce at once ; it should not be made
until it is wanted for the table.
BOILED RICE-DUMPLINGS. ✪ Boiled Rice-Dumplings
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Strain the liquid quickly into the caramel, or browned sugar, mix them thoroughly, and serve the sauce with the pudding.
BOILED APPLE-PUDDING.
Peel about a quart of apples, cut. them in quarters, remove the cores, and lay the apples in cold water ; peel, boil, and mash half a dozen large potatoes, adding to them, while mashing them, half a pound of butter ; then mix with the potatoes an equal quantity of flour, and sufficient cold water to form a stiff pastry, and roll it out about an inch thick ; dip a large pudding-cloth in boiling water, spread it inside a bowl large enough to contain the apples, leaving the sides of the cloth hanging over the edges of the bowl ; dredge the cloth quickly with flour, and then spread the crust over the cloth ; next drain the apples, put them into the crust, mixing with them a teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon, and four tablespoonfuls of brown sugar ; draw the pastry up around the apples, enclosing them entirely, and slightly wetting the edges to make them adhere closely; then tie the pudding-cloth tightly around the pudding ; put the pudding at once into a large pot of boiling water, and boil it steadily for three hours, keeping it well covered ; when the pudding is done, remove the cloth, and serve it with any good pudding-sauce.
EGG PUDDING-SAUCE.
Beat to a cream one cupful each of butter and sugar, the yolk of a raw egg, and a glass of wine ; beat the white of an egg to a froth ; make the sauce as quickly as possible ; when the ingredients first named are beaten to a cream, stir in a gill of boiling water, and the white of the egg, and send the sauce to the table at once.
BOILED HUCKLEBERRY-PUDDING, WITH EGGS.
Pick over, wash, and dry a quart of huckleberries, and roll them in flour ; sift together a quart of flour, and one tea-
spoonful each of salt and baking-soda; butter a tight tin pudding-mould ; beat half a cupful of butter and a cupful of sugar to a cream ; beat two eggS to a cream with a cupful of sugar ; next put the berries, flour, butter, sugar, and eggs into a mixing-bowl, and stir in sufficient sour milk to make a soft dough ; put this dough into the buttered tin mould, close the mould so that no water can penetrate it, put it into a pot of actually boiling water, and boil it steadily for three hours ; then turn the pudding from the mould, and serve it hot with any good pudding-sauce. The same pudding is excellent if baked in a buttered dish until the dough is quite done, for about half an hour.
BERRY SAUCE.
Mash a cupful of ripe berries ; beat a cupful of sugar and half a cupful of butter to a cream ; beat the white of an egg to a stiff froth ; mix all these ingredients lightly together, and then serve the sauce at once ; it should not be made until it is wanted for the table.
BOILED RICE-DUMPLINGS.
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