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Pudding, Geraldina

Pound in a mortar to a pulp three ounces sweet, peeled almonds and two beans peeled bitter almonds. Place the paste in a saucepan with one pint cold milk and boil for ten minutes. Have in another saucepan four tablespoons rice flour and drop in, little by little, the boiling milk right on top of the flour, sharply mixing continually while adding it. Now add one ounce good butter and continue to mix with a wooden spoon for five minutes, keeping it on the range. Remove the pan on a table, add two ounces powdered sugar, one teaspoon vanilla essence, two egg yolks and a tablespoon cold cream; briskly mix the whole well to-together with a skimmer for two minutes. Beat up the whites of the two eggs to a stiff froth, add to the preparation and gently mix with the skimmer for one minute.

Lightly butter a quart pudding mould, pour the preparation into the mould, place it in a saucepan, pour in boiling water up to half the height of the mould, and place it in the oven to steam for forty minutes. Remove, unmould on a hot dish. Pour a hot apricot sauce over the pudding and serve.