Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes

Christine Terhune Herrick's 1905 subscription set, Books Three and Four complete - soup stock to cheese straws, with the famous chefs of the United States listed on the title page.

Baked Puddings

44 recipes in this part of Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes.

Boston Delight

2 cupfuls crumbled Boston brown bread, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, 2 eggs, beaten, 1 quart milk, 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter, cupful mixed…

Cracker Raisin Pudding

Scald 5 cupfuls milk; pour over 1 1/2 cupfuls rolled cracker crumbs; add 1/4 cupful cold butter, 1/2 cupful molasses, 1/2 teaspoonful each…

Apple Tapioca Pudding

Pare and core enough apples to fill dish; put into each apple a bit of lemon peel. Soak 1/2 pint tapioca in 1 quart lukewarm water one…

Date Pudding

1/2 pound of dates, whites of 6 eggs, 5 table-spoonfuls of pulverized sugar. Take the stones out of the dates, beat the eggs very stiff…

Rice Pudding-No. 1

1/2 cupful rice, 1 1/2 pints milk, 1/2 cupful sugar, large pinch salt, 1 tablespoonful lemon rind chopped fine. Put rice (washed and…

Rice Pudding-No. 2

1/2 cupful rice, 3/4 pint milk, 4 apples, peeled, cored, and stewed; 1/3 cupful sugar, 4 eggs. Boil rice in milk until reduced to pulp…

Orange Pudding

2 eggs, 1 cupful milk, 1 tablespoonful corn starch, 1 1/2 cupfuls sugar. Cook all this except the whites of the eggs, and when cool pour…

Huckleberry, Blackberry, or Cherry Pudding

Into 1 egg lightly beaten pour 1 cupful molasses, add 1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a little water, then thicken with 2 1/2 cupfuls…

Chocolate Pudding

10 tablespoonfuls bread crumbs, 6 tablespoonfuls grated chocolate, 1 pint milk, 1 pint sugar, yolks of 6 eggs, whites of 2 eggs. Boil the…

Apple Meringue

Pare and slice 8 sour apples. Place them in a pudding-dish and cover with a liberal amount of sugar, adding the grated rind and juice of 1…

Baked Sago Pudding

Wash 3 tablespoonfuls of sago, and soak it for one hour in 1/2 pint of cold water. Meantime put 1 1/2 pints of milk into a saucepan with a…

Bread Custard Pudding

Make a custard according to size of pudding required. 1 pint of custard will fill a mediumsized dish. Cut slices of thin bread and butter…

Brown Bread Pudding

Take equal quantities of well-washed currants, brown bread crumbs, and shred suet--1/2 pound of each--add 6 ounces of sugar, 1/2 glass of…

Jewish Almond Pudding

Put 4 ounces of sweet almonds, and 3 bitter ones, into a saucepan of cold water. Heat it gradually, and when too hot to bear the fingers…

Baked Batter Pudding

Separate the yolks from the whites of 4 eggs, beat them well separately, and throw them in a basin together; then mix them very gradually…

Apple or Other Fruit Souffle

Reduce half a dozen apples to a pulp, sweeten, and flavor them nicely, and place them in the middle of a large dish. When cool, pour over…

Arrowroot Souffle

Mix 4 tablespoonfuls of arrowroot with 1 cupful of milk. Stir it gradually into 1 pint of boiling milk, and add 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar…

Lemon Souffle

Mix 1/4 of a pound of flour very smoothly with 1 1/2 pints of milk; add 1/4 of a pound of sugar, which has been well rubbed upon the rind…

Ground Rice Souffle

Mix 3 ounces of ground rice smoothly with 1/2 pint of new milk or cream. Put them into a saucepan, with 2 ounces of fresh butter, 1/4 of a…

Caramel Pudding

1/2 pint brown sugar, 1/2 pint water, 1/4 box gelatine, whites of 4 eggs, 1/2 teaspoonful of vanilla. Soak gelatine in 1 gill of cold water…

Custard Sauce (Gills milk yolks of eggs)

3 gills milk, yolks of 4 eggs, 3 tablespoonfuls sugar, little salt, and little vanilla. Boil for a minute or two.

Heavenly Hash

Strain the juice from 1 pint of cherries or red raspberries and place in a sauce dish with alternate layers of sliced bananas, sprinkling…

Tapioca Custard

Put 2 tablespoonfuls fine tapioca in double boiler with 1 pint milk, cook and stir till tapioca is transparent. Add yolks of 2 eggs, beaten…

Snow Pudding

Soak 1/2 box of gelatine in 1/2 cupful cold water, then pour on 1 1/2 cupfuls boiling water; add juice of 1 lemon and 1 cupful sugar, and…

Apple Snow--No. 1

Core, quarter, and steam 3 large sour apples. Rub through sieve, cool; whip whites 3 eggs to very stiff froth with 1/2 cupful powdered…

Snow Eggs

To whites 5 eggs add pinch salt, and whip to very stiff froth; gradually add 1 tablespoonful powdered sugar and few drops flavoring. Scald…

Charlotte Russe

Mix 1 pint rich cream, 1/2 cupful powdered sugar, 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Have very cold and whip to stiff froth, turning under cream when…

Boiled Custard Pudding

Make 1 pint of custard with 1/2 pint of milk, and 3 eggs. Flavor and sweeten it liberally, or the pudding will be insipid. Put it into a…

Baked Custard Pudding

Take as many eggs as will, when level, cover the bottom of the dish in which you intend to bake the custard. Break each one into a separate…

Floating Island

Into 3/4 of a pint of cream put sugar to make it very sweet, and the juice and rind of 1 lemon, grated. Beat it for ten minutes. Cut French…

Frozen Custard

Scald 2 quarts rich milk; add 3/4 tablespoonful of corn starch, dissolved; cook for twenty minutes. Add 6 beaten eggs, 1 cupful sugar, 1…

Apricot Custard

Line a pie-dish with a good short crust. Spread smoothly at the bottom a layer of apricot marmalade about an inch in thickness, and pour…

Taganrok (Russian)

Add to 2 cupfuls of hot hominy 1 cupful sugar, pinch of salt, 1 tablespoonful butter, 1 cupful currants, and raisins, juice, and grated…

Frozen Plum Pudding

Beat 6 yolks with cream; pour over 1 cupful scalded milk; add extract of cinnamon and a cupful of sugar. Cook until mixture coats a spoon…

Apple Mange

Reduce to a pulp a dozen fine apples, or other fruit, and sweeten and flavor according to taste. When quite cold, pour it into a glass…

Strawberry Pudding

Sprinkle 1 cupful of sugar over 1 quart of strawberries; mash, and let them stand until the sugar is dissolved, stirring occasionally…

Apple Snow--No. 2

Reduce half a dozen apples to a pulp; press them through a sieve, sweeten and flavor them. Take the whites of 6 eggs, whisk them for some…

Swiss Cream

Crumble a quarter of a pound of macaroons and 2 or 3 penny sponge cakes, or use a mixture of macaroons and ratafias. Lay the crumbs in a…

Canary Cream

Put a pint of milk into a saucepan with a little sugar and the grated rind of half a lemon. When boiling, pour it upon the beaten yolks of…

Frangipane

Beat 6 eggs until light; add to them gradually a pint of new milk and 2 small spoonfuls of flour. Put the mixture over the fire in a clean…

Velvet Cream

Put a pint and a quarter of milk into a saucepan with a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar, the thin rind of half a lemon, and an inch of…

Fruit Charlotte

Line a plain round mould with finger biscuits, carefully put them close together, and form a round or star at the bottom of the mould. Take…

Honeycomb Cream

Strain and sweeten liberally the juice of 2 large lemons and a Seville orange. Put it into a glass dish. Boil a pint and a half of thick…

Chocolate Cream

Grate 1 ounce of the best chocolate and 2 ounces of sugar into a pint of thick cream; boil it, stirring it all the time, until quite…

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