This section is from the book "Capital City Recipes", by First Presbyterian Church (Raleigh, N.C.). Woman's Auxiliary. Also available from Amazon: Capital City Cook Book, A Collection Of Practical Tested Receipts By Many Of The Best Housekeepers.
Sugar - Cupfuls ..............................................1
Butter - Cupfuls ..............................................1/2
Eggs................................................................3
Milk - Cupfuls ................................................1
Flour - Cupfuls ................................................3
Baking Powder - Teaspoonfuls ......................2
Cream butter and sugar; add the well beaten eggs, then the milk; sift baking powder with the flour and add last. Steam or bake and serve with sauce.
Mrs. Merrimon
Flour - Pounds ................................................1/4
Butter - Pounds ..............................................1/4
Sugar - Pounds ................................................1/4
Milk - Quarts ..................................................1
Eggs ...........................................8
Put the milk in a pan and set in boiling water; mix flour in a part of cold milk and stir in the hot milk; stir briskly till cooked; take from fire and add sugar, butter and yolks of eggs (well beaten) ; last of all add the whites (beaten stiff). Bake 20 minutes in a buttered dish, set in boiling water. MRS. T. S. KENAN.
Eggs .................................3
Sugar-Cupfuls ..................................1
Molasses-Cupfuls ..........................................1
Butter and Lard-Cupfuls..............................1
Flour-Cupfuls ..............................................3
Sweet Milk-Cupfuls ......................................1
Soda-Teaspoonfuls ........................................2
Ginger and Cinnamon.
Dissolve soda in a little hot water and add last. Serve with whipped cream flavored with vanilla.
Mrs. T. S. Kenan
Sweet Milk-Quarts.................... 1
Stale Bread Crumbs-Pints ............. 1
Sugar-Cupfuls ....................... 1
Juice and Grated Rind of 1 Lemon.
Eggs (yolks) ......................... 4
Lump of butter size of an egg.
Scald the milk and pour it over the bread crumbs; stir in the beaten eggs and sugar, lemon and butter; bake in a dish until well set, but not watery; when done let cook and spread over it a layer of cherry preserves or other acid sweet-meats; beat the whites to a stiff froth with 4 tablespoonfuls powdered sugar, spread over the pudding and brown. This does not require sauce.
Milk-Quarts ......................... 1
Bread Crumbs-Pints .................. 1
Eggs............................ 3 or 4
Butter - Tablespoonfuls . . .............................1
Sugar - Cupfuls................................................1
Currants or Raisins - Cupfuls........................1
Baking Powder - Teaspoonfuls ......................1
Soak the bread crumbs in milk or pour the hot milk over them; heat the butter in the dish in which it is to be baked; beat eggs and sugar well together; stir that and the fruit into the soaked crumbs; add the baking powder dissolved in a little milk or water; pour into the buttered dish and bake in a hot oven. Serve hot with sauce. MRS. BAUMANN.
 
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