This section is from the book "The People's Cook Book", by Jennie Taylor. See also: Larousse Gastronomique.
One cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one cup sweet milk, one egg, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder; mix with one pint of flour; bake one-half hour, and eat hot with sweet sauce.
Boil a cup of rice until it is done soft, then take two eggs, a cup of sugar, and one of milk, and stir all together and add to the rice; pare six good cooking apples, slice small, and place in bottom of pudding-dish, and pour the rice custard over them; place in a moderate oven long enough to bake the apples. To be eaten warm, either with or without cream.
Two cups of fine bread crumbs, one and one-half cups white sugar, five eggs, one tablespoonful butter, one quart fresh milk, one-half cup jelly or jam; rub the butter and one cup of the sugar together; then add the beaten yolks of the eggs; beat all to a cream; then add the bread crumbs, which have previously been soaked in the milk; bake in a pudding-dish (not filling it more than two-thirds full) until the custard is "set;" then draw it to the mouth of the oven, and spread over the jelly or jam; then cover this with a meringue made of the beaten whites and half a cup of sugar; put back in oven, and allow it to remain until the meringue begins to color; to be eaten cold with cold cream. This is truly delicious.
"One cup molasses, one cup suet, one cup raisins, one cup milk, two teaspoonfuls baking powder; add flour till very stiff to beat with a spoon; put in a steaming pan or floured bag, and steam constantly for three hours.
Put a layer of apple-sauce in a buttered pudding-dish, then a layer of cracker or bread-crumbs, sprinkled with bits of butter and seasoned with spice to taste, then a layer of sauce, and so on, the upper layer being of crumbs; lay bits of butter on the top and bake; eat with cream.
Line a pudding-dish with slices of cake; slice thin a pineapple, and place a layer on the cake in the bottom of the dish, sprinkle with sugar, then more pineapple, and so on until the dish is full; cover with slices of cake, and over the whole pour a cup of water; cover and bake slowly for nearly two hours.
One pint of bread-crumbs, one quart milk, one cup sugar, butter size of an egg, yolks of four eggs; flavor with lemon, and bake as custard; beat the whites of four eggs to a froth, mix with a cup of powdered sugar and juice of a lemon; spread a layer of fruit jelly over the custard while hot; cover with the frosting, and bake until slightly brown. To be eaten with cold cream, or warm, with any sauce that may be preferred.
Heat milk to the boiling-point, salt to taste, and stir in gradually rye flour, to make a thick mush; cook about fifteen minutes, and eat with sugar and cream.
1. One egg, one cup sugar, two and one-half flour, three teaspoon-fuls baking-powder, two tablespoons melted butter, few dried currants; steam three-quarters of an hour; to be eaten with sauce. One-half meal is better, we think.
2. Six eggs, six tablespoonfuls flour, one quart milk, a little salt, and half a teaspoonful of soda, or a teaspoonful of baking-powder; bake in a buttered pan for twenty minutes.
 
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