This section is from the book "Cookery Reformed: Or The Lady's Assistant", by P. Davey and B. Law.
Never put the pudding into the pot till the water boils, and when it is boiled enough, just dip it in a pan of cold water, and it will cause the pudding to come out clean, without flicking to the cloth.
Take four eggs without the whites and four with, mix them with a quarter of a pint of milk, and stir in four large spoonfuls of flour, and beat them well together; then boil six bitter almonds in two spoon fuls of water; pour the water into the mixture, blanch the almonds, and beat them in a mortar, with half a nutmeg, and a tea-spoonful of salt; add this to the mixture likewise, and then pour in a pint and three quarters of milk: flour your cloth well, put in the batter, and let it boil an hour.
Take a pint of milk, and four eggs: beat them well together, and mix them with flour till the batter is very thick. Then take a pint more of milk, a pound of suet shredded small, two tea-spoonfuls of ginger, and a tea-spoonful of salt: stir them together, and if the batter is not pretty thick, add more flour. Boil the pudding two hours.
Take fix eggs, three with the whites, and three without; beat them up, and mix them with a quarter of a pint of milk, six spoonfuls of flour, a tea-spoonful of grated ginger, and a tea-spoonful of salt; mix them all together, and add a pint and three quarters of milk : stir them well, put the batter into a cloth, boil it for an hour and a quarter, then take it up, and pour melted butter over it.
Take a quart of milk, and mix six spoonfuls of flour with a quarter of a pint of it; then add two tea tea-spoonfuls of grated ginger, two of tincture of saffron, and one of salt; then mix them with the reft of the milk, put the batter in a cloth, and boil it for an hour. This pudding may be mix with fruit at pleasure.
To make a Bread-Pudding. Take all the crumb of a penny-loaf, obtained by cutting off the crust, slice it thin into a quart of new milk, set it over a chaffing-dish of coals, till the bread has soaked up all the milk; then put in a piece of butter, stir it about, and let the mixture stand till it is cold, or, which is as well, boil the milk, and pour it over the bread; then take fix eggs, three with the whites, and three without, and beat them up, with a little rose-water and nutmeg, as also a little salt, and, if you like it, some sugar; mix all together, and boil the batter in a cloth for half an hour.
Take two stale half penny rolls, and grate them, then pour over them a pint of milk boiling hot; then take a little melted butter, two eggs, and a little salt; beat them well together, and mix them with the bread and milk; boil the batter for half an hour in a cloth, then put the pudding into a dish, with melted butter and sugar.
 
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