GREEN GOOSEBERRY PUDDING

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845
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Modern cookery for private families
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (7)
For boiling
For adding after mashing
For a finer pudding
Instructions (8)
  1. Boil together, from ten to twelve minutes, a pound of green gooseberries, five ounces of sugar, and rather more than a quarter of a pint of water.
  2. Beat the fruit to a mash.
  3. Stir to it an ounce and a half of fresh butter.
  4. When nearly, or quite cold, add two ounces and a half of very fine bread-crumbs, and four well whisked eggs.
  5. Bake the pudding gently from half to three-quarters of an hour.
For a finer pudding
  1. Work the fruit through a sieve.
  2. Mix it with four or five crushed Naples biscuits.
  3. Use double the quantity of butter.
Original Text
GREEN GOOSEBERRY PUDDING. Boil together, from ten to twelve minutes, a pound of green gooseberries, five ounces of sugar, and rather more than a quarter of a pint of water: then beat the fruit to a mash, and stir to it an ounce and a half of fresh butter; when nearly, or quite cold, add 436two ounces and a half of very fine bread-crumbs, and four well whisked eggs. Bake the pudding gently from half to three-quarters of an hour. To make a finer one of the kind, work the fruit through a sieve, mix it with four or five crushed Naples biscuits, and use double the quantity of butter. Green gooseberries, 1 lb.; sugar, 5 oz.; water, full 1/4 pint: 10 to 12 minutes. Bread-crumbs, 2-1/2 oz.; eggs, 4: 1/2 to 3/4 hour.
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