Duchess Pudding
Pouding à la Duchesse
Take twelve nice ripe apricots, remove the peel and
the stones; pound the fruit into a smooth pulp with two
large tablespoonfuls of apricot jam, pound the kernels
from the stones and add them to the fruit, with the juice
of two lemons, the fruit of two large bananas mashed up,
a tablespoonful of vanilla essence, and sufficient of
Marshall's Apricot Yellow to impart to it a rich yellow
colour. Prepare one and a half pints of custard (as below),
add the fruit and a quarter pint of rose water; rub it
through a tammy cloth, then pour it into the charged
freezer and freeze it to a somewhat thick consistency;
add to it one pint of double cream that has been sweetened
with one ounce of castor sugar; refreeze it, and put it
into any pretty pudding mould, and set this in the
charged ice-cave for three and a half to four hours; then
dip the mould into cold water, and turn out the ice on
a fancy paper on to a plate. Garnish it with little