A General Rule To Be Observed In Boiling Puddings

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.

How To Make A Flour-Pudding

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.

How To Make A Boiled Suet-Pudding

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.

How To Make A Batter-Pudding

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.

A Batter-Pudding Without Eggs

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.

How To Make An Ordinary Bread-Pudding

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.