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Eve's Pudding

A favorite variety of the plum pudding order, light and not too rich. Also called pouding a la Francaise. The pundit who put the receipt in verse was not concerned about the needs of large hotel. 1 pound of bread crumbs cut fine. 1/2 pound of chopped suet. 3/4 pound of seedless raisins, or currants. 3/4 pound of chopped apples. 1/2 a nutmeg grated.

Mix the above together dry; then beat together: 9 eggs Salt. 1/4 pound of sugar. 1 teaspoonful of lemon extract. Stir all well together; tie the mixture in two cloths, leaving a little room to swell, and boil without stoppage 4 hours. When eggs are scarce 5 or 6 will do with half a cup of milk added. Butter and sugar sauce is suitable; though one says, "Adam won't like it without wine and sugar." "Such," says Bulwer, "is the constant habit of young people. They think anything expensive is necessarily good." Bulwer was young himself at that time and must have known how it was. If the obverse was as invariably the case we should expect to find but few admirers of the following, which is the cheapest pudding made. Certainly it is not the case in this direction, for we find no difficulty in disposing of large quantities of this pudding of many names. However, it must be properly baked, and ought to be in a brick oven, otherwise it has no goodness at all. The theory of rice pudding is--by the way, perhaps you did not know there was a theory of rice pudding? Yes, indeed. This is a great day for theories, and there is a pudding theory as well as a nebular theory and an atomic theory and an evolution theory; and as there will be unlimited time to study the others after we are done with pudding it is evident the pudding theory should stand first.--The rice pudding theory teaches that all the richness is derived from the evaporation and condensation of the milk. As one pint of rice will absorb three pints of milk and no more, the baking has to be so protracted that the pudding is made to contain the condensed richness of six pints of milk, half of it, the watery part being dried out in the oven. As a matter of course the richer the milk and the more cream it contains the better it will be to start with. Baked Rice and Milk Pudding. Asto<??> House Pudding. English Rice Pudding.