Maccaroni Pudding
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 0.5 pound maccaroni
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 5 egg yolks
- 2 egg whites
- 0.5 pint cream
- white meat
- boiled ham
- 3 spoonful grated cheese
- pepper
- salt
- butter
- rich gravy
Instructions
- Simmer half a pound of maccaroni in plenty of water with a tablespoonful of salt until tender but not broken. Strain the maccaroni well.
- Beat together five egg yolks and two egg whites with half a pint of cream until combined.
- Mince white meat and boiled ham very fine. Add three spoonsful of grated cheese, pepper, and salt to the meat mixture.
- Mix the meat and cheese mixture with the cooked maccaroni.
- Butter a mould and fill it with the maccaroni mixture. Steam it in a pan of boiling water for an hour.
- Turn out and serve with rich gravy.