This section is from the book "Centennial Cookery Book", by Woman's Centennial Association. Also available from Amazon: Centennial Cookery Book.
A nice blackberry pudding is made of 1/2 cup of sour Cream (good), 1 even teaspoonful of soda, same of salt, 1 heaping tablespoonful of sugar, and flour enough to make a stiff batter; lastly, stir in 1 pint of nice large berries-slightly. Put in a pudding dish and steam 3/4 of an hour. Serve with sugar and Cream.
Core as many small apples as will fit into a pudding dish. Make pie crust and incase each apple in a piece of the crust, having first put a little butter, some sugar and ground cinnamon in each apple. Mix water, butter, sugar and spice as for sauce and pour some of it over the dumplings. Bake till done, putting more of the sauce over them as it cooks away. Serve hot.
Five eggs to a quart of milk, 5 tablespoons of sugar, add flour when cool. When the custard is done and hot, add a little of the beaten egg, then heap the rest in spoonfuls, making an uneven surface.
A layer of sliced apples, a little nutmeg and sugar, a layer of bread and butter, then a layer of apples, so continue until you have filled your pan, the last layer being apples, add a cup of hot water, sufficient to wet the bread. Bake 1 hour in a moderate oven.
A delicious pudding is made by using rhubarb instead of apples. Cut up the rhubarb without taking off the skin. Slice as you would for pies.
Three tablespoonfuls melted butter, 1 cup of sugar mixed with butter, 1 egg well beaten, 1 pint flour, 1 cup of sweet milk, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of Cream of tartar. Beat well, and bake 30 minutes. To be eaten hot with sauce.
Two cups of bread crumbs, 1 cup of sugar, 1 quart of milk, 5 eggs, 3 tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate. Boil bread and milk until it thickens. After it is cool stir in the beaten yolks of 5 and whites of 2 eggs with the sugar, add the chocolate. Bake 1/2 hour. Beat 3 whites, 5 tablespoonfuls of sugar, and 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. Spread over the top and brown. Eat cold with Cream.
One pint of milk, 2 tablespoons of corn starch, 1/2 cup of sugar. Flavor. Boil the milk, adding the sugar and corn starch, and when thick, stir in lightly 1/2 of a grated cocoanut and the beaten whites of 3 or 4 eggs. Mould, and eat cold with Cream.
One cup of Cooper's gelatine after it is broken into fine bits. Pour 3 1/2 cups of water over it and let it stand till dissolved. Add 2 cups of sugar, and juice of 2 lemons. Strain and set in a cool place till it begins to jelly, then add the well beaten whites of 3 eggs. Stir in well, and turn into a mould.
One cup of sugar, 1 tablespoonful of butter, 1 cup of sweet milk, 1 pint of flour, 2 eggs, 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Serve with rich sauce.
One quart of milk; take one-half the milk and heat it, when nearly boiling add 2 tablespoonfuls of corn starch, dissolved in cold milk and a little sugar. When ready to take off, stir in the whites of 2 eggs, beaten stiff. Make a custard of the other one-half quart of milk and the yolks of the eggs, and pour over the pudding, when cold.
This same pudding is delicious with whipped Cream poured over it. Take 1/2 a bowl full of cream, beat it with a Dover egg beater, and as the cream grows light and puffy take it off and sweeten it, and flavor it with vanilla.
 
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