This section is from the book "The Blue Grass Cook Book", by Minnie C. Fox. Also available from Amazon: The Blue Grass Cook Book.
Mrs. Henry C. Buckner
12 small sponge cakes, grated,
5 eggs,
1 teacup of currants,
1 teacup of raisins, cut fine,
1 teacup of sugar,
1 tablespoon of butter,
3 tablespoons of marmalade, 1 teacup of cream.
Cook 15 or 20 minutes. When pudding is nearly done, stick it with a knife in several places, and pour over it a glass of wine. To be served with or without sauce.
Mrs. Ellet Cabell
Dissolve 1/4 box of gelatine in 2 cups of warm water. When cold, add 1/2 cup of sugar and grated peel and juice of 2 lemons. When it begins to harden, add whites of 5 eggs, well beaten. Beat thoroughly and turn into a mould. When cold, serve with a custard made of yolks of the eggs, 2 cups of milk, sugar, and flavoring to taste.
E. D. P
1 pound of flour,
2 teaspoons of baking-powder, sifted with flour, 1 pound of raisins,
1/2 pound of butter, 1/2 pound of sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup of new milk.
Flour raisins well with some of the 1 pound of flour. Season to taste and steam 3 hours.
V. C. G
6 eggs,
3 tablespoons of flour, 1 pint of sweet milk, 1 pinch of salt.
Beat the yolks well and mix smoothly with the flour. Add the milk and strain. Whip the whites to a stiff froth; beat them in, and bake immediately.
Mrs. Wash Fithian
5 tablespoons of tapioca, 1 quart of new milk, 1 tumbler of cream, 1/2 tumbler of wine, 4 eggs, Flavor to taste.
Soak the tapioca in the new milk over night. Bring it to a boil and add the cream, wine, eggs (beaten separately), sugar, and flavoring.
Bake 15 or 20 minutes, and serve with a sauce.
R. V. J
Moisten sponge cake with 1 cup of sherry wine. Make a custard of 1 pint of milk and yolks of 3 eggs. Pour over cake while hot.
Just before it goes to the table, stick it full of blanched almonds. Beat the whites to a stiff froth with 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar; then add 1 cup of sweet cream and pour over cake.
Before adding the last, stir in candied fruit, if desired.
Mrs. Cyrus McCormick
1 1/2 pounds best seeded raisins,
3/4 pound finely chopped citron,
1/4 pound conserved oranges, 1 pound finely shredded beef suet.
Sift over these ingredients 1 1/2 pounds of flour, and mix thoroughly, Beat 6 eggs very light with 1 pound of white sugar, Add 1/2 grated nutmeg, 1 wineglass of brandy, 3 teacups bread-crumbs,
Enough sweet milk to make a batter, Spices to taste.
Then add 2 teaspoons of baking-powder, and lastly all the fruit. Pour in a well-greased mould or pudding-bag and boil 6 hours.
V. C. G
1 pint of milk,
8 tablespoons of flour,
2 eggs, Salt.
Mis thoroughly, so there will be no lumps, and let stand 10 or 15 minutes to get light. Take some of the gravy from the roast-beef pan and grease a small dripping-pan, leaving it about a 1/4 of an inch thick on the bottom of the pan. Then pour the batter in and bake half an hour, according to oven.
 
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