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RECIPES TRIED AND TRUE


BLUEBERRY PUDDING

  • ⅓ cupful Crisco,
  • ½ cupful sugar,
  • 2 egg yolks,
  • 5 teaspoonfuls baking powder,
  • 2½ cupfuls wheat flour,
  • ½ teaspoonful salt,
  • ½ cupful milk,
  • 2 eggs whites,
  • 1 cupful blueberries.
  • Use level measurements

Cream the Crisco; beat in the sugar and yolks; add the flour with the baking powder and salt, alternately, with the milk; beat in the whites and berries. Steam in a mold one hour and a half. Serve hot with blueberries stewed with a little sugar.

BREAD PUDDING

  • 2 eggs,
  • ½ cup sugar,
  • 1 quart scalded milk,
  • ¼ teaspoon salt,
  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon,
  • 2 cups bread crumbs,
  • 1 cup raisins.

Beat eggs, sugar and add milk ; add salt and cinnamon. Butter dish. Turn in bread crumbs and raisins. Pour milk over this. Bake about one hour. If desired, 10 minutes before finished, a layer of jelly may be spread, with the whites of eggs beaten with a little sugar as a meringue, then browned.

CHOCOLATE NUT PUDDING

  • 1 cup chopped nuts,
  • 1 cup soft bread crumbs,
  • 2 cups scalded milk,
  • 2 squares grated chocolate,
  • ½ teaspoon salt,
  • 2 eggs,
  • 1 lemon, juice and rind,

Mix altogether and bake ½ hour. Serve with whipped cream.

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