Bildah Pudding
Pouding à la Bildah
Take one pint of lemon cream ice (‘ Book of Ices,’ p. 17) and one pint of Maraschino cream ice (‘ Book of Ices,’ p. 17), adding to this half a wineglass of brandy; freeze these separately, and add to the lemon ice a quarter of a pound of dried apricots, two ounces of dried cherries, and the half of a fresh cocoanut that has been peeled and grated; add to the maraschino ice a wineglass of Silver Rays (white) rum, and a quarter pound of shelled and blanched Valencia almonds that have been cut up into little square pieces and baked a deep brown. Put a pretty pudding mould into a charged ice cave for about a quarter of an hour, then fill it with the two ices in layers; put it to freeze in the charged ice cave for about three hours, during which time turn it occasionally so that the ice becomes evenly frozen. When ready to serve turn out the pudding in the usual way, and serve for dinner or ball supper.