This section is from the "The National Cook Book" book, by Marion Harland And Christine Terhune Herrick. Also available from Amazon: National Cook Book
Three tablespoonfuls of arrow-root. Get the Bermuda if you can, or you may require more; three cupfuls of fresh milk; two tablespoonfuls of sugar; one tablespoonful of butter; one-quarter pound of crystallized peaches, chopped fine. Heat the milk to scalding, and stir in the arrow-root wet up with cold milk. Stir ten minutes, and add sugar and butter. Stir five minutes more, and pour out. When nearly cold beat in the fruit. Pour into a wet mould. When cold and stiff turn out upon a dish, and eat with sugar and cream. It is very good without the fruit, but needs more sugar in making.
 
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