Mrs Beetons Puddings and Desserts Revisited
Baked Semolina Pudding
900ml (1½ pints) Milk
Very Good Puff Paste or Medium Puff Paste
110g (4oz) Sugar
85g (3oz) Semolina
85g (3oz) Butter
4 Eggs
12 Bitter Almonds
Flavour the milk with the bitter almonds, by infusing them over a very low heat for about 30 minutes.
Strain and mix with the semolina, sugar and butter.
Stir over the heat for a few minutes.
Take off heat and gradually mix in the eggs, which should be well beaten.
Butter a pie dish, line the edges with puff paste.
Add the pudding.
Bake in rather a slow oven from 40 to 50 minutes.
Serve with custard sauce or stewed fruit, a little of which may be poured over the pudding.
Time: 40 to 50 minutes.
Sufficient for 5 or 6 persons.
Seasonable at any time.
BAKED SEMOLINA PUDDING
1369. INGREDIENTS - 3 oz. of semolina, 1-1/2 pint of milk, 1/4 lb. of sugar, 12 bitter almonds, 3 oz. of butter, 4 eggs.
Mode - Flavour the milk with the bitter almonds, by infusing them in it by the side of the fire for about 1/2 hour; then strain it, and mix with it the semolina, sugar, and butter. Stir these ingredients over the fire for a few minutes; then take them off, and gradually mix in the eggs, which should be well beaten. Butter a pie-dish, line the edges with puff-paste, put in the pudding, and bake in rather a slow oven from 40 to 50 minutes. Serve with custard sauce or stewed fruit, a little of which may be poured over the pudding.
Time - 40 to 50 minutes.
Average cost, 1s. 2d.
Sufficient for 5 or 6 persons.
Seasonable at any time.
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