This section is from the book "Mrs. Fryer's Loose-Leaf Cook Book", by Jane Eayre Fryer. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Fryer's Loose-Leaf Cook Book.
2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon butter
1 egg
1 scant cup m 4 apples
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Make a dough of the first six ingredients and spread one half inch thick in a buttered pan. Pare and core the apples; cut them into eighths; spread them over the dough; sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and bake the pudding about twenty-five minutes. Serve with lemon or vanilla sauce.
Peach pudding may be made in the same way.
4 eggs
Equal weight in sugar
1/2 weight in flour Grated rind of 1/2 lemon
Beat the eggs separately until very light; stir the sugar into the yolks; add the flour and whites of the eggs alternately, then the lemon. Bake in a Turk's head, and serve with lemon sauce.
1 pint hot milk 1/2 cup Indian meal 3 eggs 1 tablespoon flour
1/2 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon cinnamon Pinch of salt
1 pint cold milk
Bring one pint of milk to the boiling point; pour it gradually on the meal, stirring all the while to prevent lumps. When cool, add the beaten eggs and the other ingredients. Pour into a buttered pudding dish and bake an hour and a half. Serve with hot maple sugar or cream.
5 cups milk
1/3 cup Indian meal
1/2 cup molasses 1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ginger
Scald the milk; pour it slowly on the meal; cook in a double boiler for twenty minutes; add molasses, salt and ginger. Pour into a buttered pudding dish and bake in a slow oven for about two hours. Serve with cream.
1 quart milk
2 cups Indian meal
5 tablespoons molasses
2 tablespoons chopped suet
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup seeded raisins
1 1/2 tablespoons flour
Scald the milk and pour it over the meal; add the molasses, suet, salt, and the raisins washed and dredged with the flour. Put the pudding into a mold or bag and boil four hours. Serve with butter and maple syrup.
The raisins may be omitted if desired.
1 egg
1 cup sugar
1 heaping tablespoon butter
1 cup milk 1 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 pint berries
Beat the egg with the sugar and butter; add the milk and sifted flour and baking powder. When thoroughly mixed add the huckleberries, previously washed and drained and dredged with flour. Pour into a buttered baking dish and bake in a moderate oven. Serve with lemon or fruit sauce.
1 quart bread crumbs 1 pint milk
2 eggs
1 quart berries
Pinch of salt
Soak the broken bread crumbs in the milk; add the eggs well beaten, the salt and the berries, washed and drained. Steam in a buttered mold for three hours and serve with either hard sauce or fruit sauce.
 
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