German Puffs

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (8)
Instructions (6)
  1. Put half a pint of good milk into a tossing-pan, and dredge it in flour till it is thick as hasty-pudding.
  2. Keep stirring it over a slow fire, till it is all of a lump.
  3. Put it in a marble mortar; when it is cold put to it the yolks of three eggs, four ounces of sugar, a spoonful of rose water, grate a little nutmeg, and the rind of half a lemon.
  4. Beat them together an hour or more, when it looks light and bright.
  5. Drop them into a pan of boiling lard with a tea-spoon, the size of a large nutmeg.
  6. They will rise, and look like a large yellow.
Original Text
To make GERMAN PUFFS. PUT half a pint of good milk into a tossing- pan, and dredge it in flour till it is thick as hasty- pudding, keep stirring it over a slow fire, till it is all of a lump, then put it in a marble mortar; when it is cold put to it the yolks of three eggs, four ounces of sugar, a spoonful of rose water, grate a little nutmeg, and the rind of half a le- mon, beat them together an hour or more, when it looks light and bright, drop them into a pan of boiling lard with a tea-spoon, the size of a large nutmeg, they will rise, and look like a large yellow
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