This section is from the book "Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea.
3 even table-spoonfuls arrowroot.
2 table-spoonfuls of sugar. 1 table-spoonful of butter
3 cups rich new milk.
1/4 pound crystallized peaches, chopped fine.
Heat the milk scalding hot in a farina-kettle. Wet the arrowroot with cold milk, and stir into tin's. When it begins to thicken, add sugar and butter. Stir constantly for fifteen minutes. Turn out into a bowl, and when almost cold beat in the fruit. Wet a mould, put in the mixture, and set in a cold place until firm.
Eat with powdered sugar and cream.
3 even table-spoonfuls arrowroot. 1 quart new milk.
1 table-spoonful butter.
4 table-spoonfuls sugar.
4 eggs, beaten light. A little nutmeg. Vanilla flavoring.
Scald the milk; wet the arrowroot with cold milk, and pour the hot gradually upon it, stirring all the time. Beat the eggs very light, rub butter and sugar together; mix with the eggs; whisk hard for a minute before pouring the milk in with them. Flavor; put into a buttered mould. The water should be nearly boiling when it goes in, and boil steadily for one hour. If you have a steamer, it is best cooked in that, the heat reaching all parts of the covered mould at the same time. Set in cold water a minute before turning it out. Eat with brandy or wine sauce.
 
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