Another Batter Pudding
Source: Eliza Acton, 1845
Instructions
- Mix the yolks of three eggs smoothly with three heaped tablespoonsful of flour.
- Thin the batter with new milk until it is of the consistence of cream.
- Whisk the whites of the eggs apart, and stir them into the batter.
- Boil the pudding in a floured cloth or in a buttered mould or basin for an hour.
- Before it is served, cut the top quickly into large dice half through the pudding, pour over it a small jarful of fine currant, raspberry, or strawberry jelly, and send it to table without the slightest delay.
- Proportions: Flour, 3 tablespoonsful; eggs, 3; salt, 1/2 teaspoonful; milk, from 1/2 to whole pint: 1 hour.