Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

Molasses i pint. Eggs 6. Suet chopped one-half pound. Indian meal 6 cups. Cinnamon i tea-spoonful. A few apples. Warm the milk and molasses together, beat and stir in the eggs, mix the suet with the meal, pouring in the milk and molasses, and then slice in the apples. Bake i ^ hours, according to the heat of the oven. NO. 2. Scalded milk 3 pints. Flour I good handful. Eggs 3. Molasses one-half tea-cupful. A little salt. Indian meal to make like batter for pan-cakes. Then bake in a hot oven. POOR MAN'S INDIAN PUDDING. Sweet milk scalded i quart. Molasses i cup. Salt one-half tea-spoonful. Ginger one-half tea-spoonful. Stir in 7 heaping table-spoonfuls of Indian meal. Bake 2 or 3 hours. Eat with butter or sugar. This is a good one. POTATO PUDDING. Take 6 or 8 large mealy potatoes, peel, boil and mash. Eggs 6. White sugar i cup. Butter I cup. Flour I cup. Sour milk i cup. Soda rolled fine ^ tea-spoonful. Mix the butter with the potatoes while hot; when cool, add the flour, beat the yolks of the eggs and sugar together, then add them and the whites to the potato and flour mixture, then the sour milk, and beat all well and add the soda. Bake in a buttered pan in a moderate oven. Serve hot wine sauce, or other liquid sauce. RICE PUDDING BAKED. Milk I quart. Rice before boiled i cup. Butter sufficient — a table-spoonful or two. Salt to suit. Sugar to suit. Raisins to suit. Bake. This may be made from rice left over from a previous meal, and any spices may be used if desired. This is for those who do not like eggs and but little butter in their puddings ; those who like the eggs and more butter will take the following: RICE PUDDING. For a good sized family boil a sufficiency of rice until it is perfectly soft then add Butter one-half pound. Sugar one-half pound. Eggs 4- Nutmegs i, Wine to suit. Bake. SUET PUDDING. Suet chopped fine i cup. Raisins chopped fine I cup. Sweet milk i cup. Molasses i cup. Salt I tea-spoonful. Soda ^ tea-spoonful. Flour sifted to make a batter as thick as for pound cake. Boil in a bag, or else steam it. Dried cherries or dried berries make a good substitute for raisins. ORANGE AND COCOANUT MERINGUE PUDDING. In cases where it is not convenient to have a cooked pudding, a simple and delicious meringue may be made as follows: Sweet oranges peeled and sliced i dozen. Grated cocoanut i. Powdered sugar ^ pint. Spread a layer of the orange in a glass dish, scatter the cocoanut and sugar over as before ; fill up the dish in this way, having cocoanut and sugar for the top layer. Cut through in sections with a sharp knife, when serving. This is very nice even if you could have had a cooked pudding. SWEET PUDDING. Suet chopped fine i cup. Raisins chopped fine I cup. Sour milk i cup. Eggs beaten 3. White sugar i cup. Soda I tea-spoonful. Salt one-half tea-spoonful. Flour enough to make a stiff batter. Steam 2 hours. Eat or serve with liquid sauce. LIQUID OR DIP SAUCE FOR PUDDINGS. Sugar, butter and flavor as above. Water I pint. Flour 3 tea-spoonfuls. Bring the water to a boil. Having rubbed the flour smooth with a little cold water, stir it in and add the butter and sugar, and just before serving add the flavoring extracts.