Maizena Pudding
INGREDIENTS for pudding for 3 persons. -2 tablespoonfuls of maizena, 1 tablespoonful of moist sugar, 1 egg, 1 pint of milk. AVERAGE COST, 4d.
Mix the maizena into a paste with a little cold milk, put the rest of the milk in a saucepan over the fire and when it boils pour it on the paste, stir in the egg and sugar, pour in a deep dish and bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
TIME.-15 minutes to bake.
SEASONABLE at any time.
Malt Wine. INGREDIENTS. -5 gallons of water, 28 lbs. of sugar, 6 quarts of sweet-wort, 6 quarts of tun, 3 lbs. of raisins, lb. of candy, 1 pint of brandy.
Boil the sugar and water together for 10 minutes; skim it well and put the liquor into a convenient-sized pan or tub. Allow it to cool; then mix it with the sweet-wort and tun. Let it stand for 3 days, then put MANSFIELD PUDDING. it into a barrel; here it will work or ferment for another three days or more; then bung up the cask and keep it undisturbed for 2 or 3 months. After this add the raisins (whole), the candy and brandy and, in 6 months' time bottle the wine off.
Those who do not brew, may procure the sweet-wort and tun from any brewer.
Sweet-wort is the liquor that leaves the mash of malt before it is boiled with the hops; tun is the new beer after the whole of the brewing operation has been completed.
TIME. To be boiled 10 minutes; to stand 3 days after mixing; to ferment 3 days; to remain in the cask 2 months before the raisins are added; bottle 6 months after.
SEASONABLE. - Make this in March or October.