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The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Francis Child
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pour without difficulty. Those who live in the city, and are obliged
to buy eggs, can do with three eggs to a quart, and more flour in
proportion. Boil about three quarters of an hour.


BREAD PUDDING.

A nice pudding may be made of bits of bread. They should be crumbled
and soaked in milk over night. In the morning, beat up three eggs
with it, add a little salt, tie it up in a bag, or in a pan that will
exclude every drop of water, and boil it little more than an hour.
No puddings should be put into the pot, till the water boils. Bread
prepared in the same way makes good plum-puddings. Milk enough to make
it quite soft; four eggs; a little cinnamon; a spoonful of rose-water,
or lemon-brandy, if you have it; a tea-cupful of molasses, or sugar to
your taste, if you prefer it; a few dry, clean raisins, sprinkled in,
and stirred up thoroughly, is all that is necessary. It should bake or
boil two hours.


RENNET PUDDING.

If your husband brings home company when you are unprepared, rennet
pudding may be made at five minutes' notice; provided you keep a piece
of calf's rennet ready prepared soaking in a bottle of wine. One glass
of this wine to a quart of milk will make a sort of cold custard.
Sweetened with white sugar, and spiced with nutmeg, it is very good.
It should be eaten immediately; in a few hours, it begins to curdle.


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