confederate pudding
(from the Field and Fireside of Augusta, Georgia, August 15, 1863)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
(from the Field and Fireside of Augusta, Georgia, August 15, 1863)
Ingredients:
1 quart milk
1 pint flour
8 eggs
salt
1 quart dried apples
Instructions:
One quart of milk, a pint of flour, eight eggs, a little salt, and one quart of dried apples cut up very small and well washed. Beat the eggs. Roll fruit in the flour and mix with milk and eggs. Flour a cloth well, pour in the pudding, tie up and boil five or six hours. Eaten with butter and sugar sauce.
This recipe is found in John Hammond Moore's The Confederate Housewife (Columbia, SC: Summerhouse Press, 1997).
The "Southern Field and Fireside" was founded in 1859 by Colonel James Gardner of Augusta, Georgia. He was helped by John L. Stockton and W.W. Mann and was able to publish throughout the War. Gardner sold the publication in 1864 to Mr. Smith of Raleigh, N.C. The paper ceased at end of 1865.
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