Part 28

Brown Sugar Pie

2/3 cupful of brown sugar 1 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoons milk 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Cook until waxy looking, then take the yolks of 2 eggs and 1 heaping tablespoon of flour and 1 1/2 cupfuls milk. Mix all together smooth. Add to the above ingredients. Cook until thick and add vanilla. Have a baked crust, use the whites beaten stiff for the top. Return to the oven for a minute or two.

Banbury Tart

1 cup flour 2 heaping tablespoons of lard Cold water

Handle as little as possible; roll thin and cut with cutter 6 inches in diameter.

Filling

1 egg beaten light 1 cup raisins 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon of flour Juice of one lemon and grated rind

Mix well and cook to consistency of custard, and fill the pastry which is turned up and made into the shape of a tart.

PUDDINGS

We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may live without conscience, & live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilised man cannot live without cooks. Lucile by Owen Meredith (Earl of Lytton)

Hasty Pudding

My favourite pudding:

Milk one pint. Flour 1 1/2 table-spoonfuls. Sugar 1/2 teaspoonful.

Boil the milk. Mix the flour with a little cold milk. Pour the boiling milk onto this and put all back into the saucepan. Let it boil up once more and it is ready. Serve at once.

Constance Lytton]

It almost makes me wish I vow to have two stomachs like a cow. Hood.

Bakewell Pudding

The famous dainty from the town of Bakewell, Derbyshire, England.

PASTE

6 oz. flour 2 oz. margarine 1/2 small spoon baking powder

MIXTURE

1 1/2 ounces butter 3 ounces sugar 2 eggs 1 dessert spoon corn flour 1/2 cup hot water 1/2 small spoon lemon juice

Make the paste, roll quite thin, and line an ashet; spread bottom with jam; pour on top above mixture, prepared as follows:--melt butter, add sugar, flour, and beat well, then the water, and fruit juice; finally, the eggs, well beaten.

Bake for about 1/2 an hour. Serve, of course, cold.

Graham Pudding

1 cup molasses 1 cup sweet milk 1 1/2 cups graham flour 1 egg 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup raisins

Put in buttered pudding dish and steam 3 hours.