This section is from the book "The California Practical Cook Book", by Belle De Graf . Also available from Amazon: The California Practical Cook Book.
One quart milk, when boiled stir in a cup of corn meal and a little salt. When cooked, take off, sweeten with molasses, two-thirds cup of buttermilk, or sour milk, pinch of soda, butter. Bake three hours.
Four eggs, three teaspooonfuls baking powder, one pint of sweet milk, flour to make batter like cake.
Boiling water rich with butter and sugar, flour beat Up in water.
Two cups stale bread crumbs soaked till soft in one quart of milk, two eggs, nutmeg to taste, two tablespoons of melted butter, one-fourth teaspoon of soda dissolved in hot water. Bake till well set.
One cup chopped suet, one cup syrup, one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, one cup raisins, one teaspoon soda, salt. Steam three hours, eat with sauce.
One-half box gelatine dissolved in a pint of boiling water, add two cups sugar, juice of two lpmons, salt, strain the mixtures, when cold add whites of three eggs beaten stiff'. Mould this. A custard is very nice poured over this.
Grate the rind of one large lemon into a pint of milk, add the weli-beaten yolks of four eggs, and the beaten whites of two, pinch of salt. Bake in moderate oven, remove before it curdles. Beat whites of two eggs to stiff froth, add small cup of sugar, juice of one lemon; spread this over the custard, set in the oven till a light brown.
One cup chopped raisins, one cup suet, one cup molasses, one cup milk, one cup Indian meal, one cup flour, one teaspoon soda, little salt. Steam three hours.
Three pints milk boiling hot, six eggs, four even tablespoonfuls cornstarch, one-half cup sugar, pinch of salt. Beat the starch, yolks and sugar well together, and add to the boiling milk. Let them boil up, stirring all the time in a vessel set in boiling water. When it thickens, pour into a dish, and cover with the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and mixed with a teacupful of powdered sugar. Brown in the oven. Flavor the pudding with lemon or anything you choose. To be eaten cold.
One egg. yolk and white beaten separately, one quart milk, twelve tablespoonfuls flour. Bake fifteen or twenty minutes and eat with sugar and butter sauce.
Pare and chop fine six tart apples, butter a pudding dish, put in a layer half an inch thick of grated brvad; add bits of butter; then a layer of chopped apples, with sugar and nutmeg; repeat until the dish is full; pour over the whole a teacup of cold water, and bake half an hour.
Slice one-half dozen oranges in a dish, and sprinkle sugar over them. Let it stand while you make the following custard which is to be poured over the oranges. One quart milk, three eggs, one cup sugar, three (able-spoons cornstarch wet with cold milk, essence of lemon. When done pour over the oranges and let cool.
Soak one-third box of gelatine in one and a half pint of milk two hours, then set on the stove and stir till nearly boiling, beat one cup sugar with the yolks of three eggs, stir into the hot milk and gelatine, flavor with vanilla. When taken from the stove add the whites beaten stiff. Let cool for a long time.
 
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