Baked Semolina Pudding

Ingredients

• 3 oz semolina
• 1-1/2 pint milk
• 1/4 lb sugar
• 12 bitter almonds
• 3 oz butter
• 4 eggs

Instructions

1. Flavour the milk with the bitter almonds, by infusing them in it by the side of the fire for about 1/2 hour;
2. then strain it, and mix with it the semolina, sugar, and butter.
3. Stir these ingredients over the fire for a few minutes;
4. then take them off, and gradually mix in the eggs, which should be well beaten.
5. 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.
6. Serve with custard sauce or stewed fruit, a little of which may be poured over the pudding.