Sweets/Treats Flour or Batter Pudding / Cranberry Pudding

flour or batter pudding
(from The American Frugal Housewife, by Lydia Maria Child, 1832)

Ingredients:

Country Preparation...​

5 or 6 eggs​

1 quart milk​

salt​

flour​

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City Preparation...​

3 eggs​

1 quart milk​

salt​

slightly more flour​

Instructions:

Common flour pudding, or batter pudding, is easily made. Those who live in the country can beat up five or six eggs, with a quart of milk, and a little salt, with flour enough to make it just thick enough to pour without difficulty. Those who live in the city, and are obliged to buy eggs, can do with three eggs to a quart, and more flour in proportion. Boil about three quarters of an hour.​

cranberry pudding
(from The American Frugal Housewife, by Lydia Maria Child, 1832)

Ingredients:

1 pint cranberries​

1 quart batter pudding (see below receipt)​

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serve with sweet sauce​

Instructions:

A pint of cranberries stirred into a quart of batter, made like a batter pudding, but very little stiffer, is very nice, eaten with sweet sauce.​

 

[donna]

Sounds tasty and so easy to make.