This section is from the book "Common Sense In The Household. A Manual Of Practical Housewifery", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Common Sense in the Household.
2 eggs, beaten stiff.
1 large cup of sugar.
5 tablespoonfuls boiling milk.
1/2 teaspoonful arrow root or corn-starch, wet with cold milk. 1 teaspoonful nutmeg, or mace. 1 tablespoonful butter.
Rub the butter into the sugar, add the beaten egg3, and work all to a creamy froth. Wet the corn-starch and put in next with the spice - finally, pour in by the spoonful the boiling milk, beating well all the time. Set within a saucepan of boiling water five minutes, stirring all the while, but do not let the sauce Boil.
This is a good sauce for bread and other simple pud-.dings.
Yolks of four eggs, whipped very light.
1 lemon - juice and half the grated peel.
1 good glass of wine.
1 teaspoonful of cinnamon.
1 cup of sugar.
1 tablespoonful of butter.
Rub the butter into the sugar, add the yolks, lemon, and spice. Beat ten minutes and put in the wine, still stirring hard. Set within a saucepan of boiling water, and beat while it heats, but do not let it boil.
Pour over the pudding.
1/2 cup butter.
2 1/2 cups sugar.
1 dessert spoonful corn-starch wet in a little cold milk. 1 lemon - juice and half the grated peel. 1 glass of wine. 1 cup boiling water.
Cream the butter and sugar well; pour the corn-starch into the boiling water and stir over a clear fire until it is well thickened; put all together in a bowl and beat five minutes before returning to the saucepan. Heat once, almost to the boiling point, add the wine, and serve.
1 pint of milk.
2 eggs, beaten very light. 1/2 wineglass of brandy.
1 cup powdered sugar, stirred into the eggs.
Nutmeg to taste.
1 teaspoonful vanilla.
Heat the milk to boiling, and add by degrees to the beaten eggs and sugar ; put in the nutmeg, and set within a saucepan of boiling water. Stir until it begins to thicken. Take it off and add the brandy gradually. Set, until it is wanted, within a pan of boiling water.
Pour over the pudding when it comes from the mould.
1/2 cup currant jelly.
1 tablespoonful butter, melted.
1/2 dessert spoonful arrowroot or corn-starch; wet with cold water. 1 glass pale Sherry. 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water.
Stir the arrowroot into the boiling water and heat, stirring all the time, until it thickens; add the butter, and set aside until almost cool, when beat in, spoonful by spoonful, the jelly to a smooth pink paste. Pour in the wine, stir hard, and heat in a tin vessel, set within another of boiling water, until very hot.
Pour over and around Neapolitan, bread-and-marma-lade puddings, cake fritters, and Queen's toast.
1 pint of cream.
4 tablespoonfuls powdered sugar. 1 teaspoonful of nutmeg. 1 * vanilla.
Mix all well together, stirring until the sugar is dissolved. Eat with jam puddings, queen of all puddings, Alice's pudding, and peach roley-poley.
1 pint cream.
4 tablespoonfuls powdered sugar.
Whites of two eggs, beaten stiff.
Extract of vanilla or bitter almonds, one teaspoonful.
1 teaspoonful nutmeg.
Heat the cream slowly in a vessel set in a saucepan of boiling water, stirring often. When scalding, but not boiling hot, remove it from the fire, put in the sugar and nutmeg; stir three or four minutes and add the whites. Mix thoroughly and flavor, setting the bowl containing it in a pan of hot water until the pudding is served, stirring now and then.
1/2 cup currant jelly.
2 tablespoonfuls melted butter.
1 lemon - juice and half the grated peel. 1/2 teaspoonful nutmeg.
2 glasses wine, and a tablespoonful powdered sugar.
Heat the butter a little more than blood-warm; beat the jelly to a smooth batter and add gradually the butter, the lemon, and nutmeg. Warm almost to a boil, stirring all the while; beat hard, put in the sugar, lastly the wine. Set in a vessel of hot water stirring now and then, until it is wanted. Keep it covered to hinder the escape of the wine flavor. Stir well before pouring out.
This is a very fine sauce, particularly for cabinet and Neopolitan puddings.
 
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