Tansey Pudding

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Beat seven eggs very light.
  2. Mix with them a pint of cream, and nearly as much spinach juice, with a little juice of tansey.
  3. Add a quarter of a pound of powdered crackers or pounded rice made fine, a glass of wine, and some grated nutmeg and sugar.
  4. Stir it over the fire to thicken.
  5. Pour it into a paste and bake it, or fry it like an omelette.

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