This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
1/3 cup butter 1/2 cup sugar 2 1/2 cups flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
Mix and sift dry ingredients and work in butter with tips of fingers; beat egg, add milk, and combine mixtures; turn into buttered mould, cover, and steam two hours; serve with warm Apple Sauce and Hard Sauce.
Apple Sauce. Pick over and wash dried apples, soak over night in cold water to cover; cook until soft; sweeten, and flavor with lemon iuice.
3 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup sugar l egg
1 cup milk
2 1/4 cups flour
4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 1/2 squares unsweetened chocolate
1/4 teaspoon salt
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and egg well beaten. Mix and sift flour with baking powder and salt, and add alternately with milk to first mixture, then add chocolate, melted. Turn into a buttered mould. Cover, and steam two hours. Serve with
1/4 cup butter
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 cup heavy cream
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, vanilla, and cream beaten until stiff.
1/2 cup butter 7/8 cup flour 2 cups milk
Grated rind one lemon
5 eggs
1/3 cup powdered sugar
Cream the butter, add flour gradually; scald milk with lemon rind, add to first mixture, and cook five minutes in double boiler. Beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon-colored, add sugar gradually, then add to cooked mixture; cool, and cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff. Turn into buttered mould, cover, and steam one and one-fourth hours; while steaming, be sure water surrounds mould to half its depth, and never reaches a lower temperature than the boiling-point.
1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk
21/4 cups flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Whites 4 eggs
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, milk, and flour mixed and sifted with baking powder; then add the whites of eggs beaten stiff. Steam thirty-five minutes in buttered cups; serve with preserved fruit, quince marmalade, or strawberry sauce.
1/4 cup butter 1/2 cup molasses 1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cups Graham flour 1/2 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup raisins, seeded and cut in pieces
Melt butter, add molasses, milk, egg well beaten, dry ingredients mixed and sifted, and raisins; turn into buttered mould, cover, and steam two and one-half hours. Serve with Wine Sauce. Dates or figs cut in small pieces may be used in place of raisins.
St. James Pudding
3 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup molasses 1/2 cup milk 1 7/8 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon soda
1/4 teaspoon each
1/2 lb. dates, stoned and cut in pieces
Mix and steam same as Graham Pudding. Serve with Wine Sauce. A simple, delicious pudding without egg. Puddings may be steamed in buttered one-pound baking-powder boxes, providing they do not leak, and are attractive in shape and easy to serve.
 
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