The frugal housewife; or, experienced cook : wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands with cleanliness, decency, and elegance is explained in five hundred approved receipts ... / originally written by Susanna Carter, but now improved by an experienced cook in one of the principal taverns in the city of London.

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Of Puddings. OF PUDDINGS. A Marrow Pudding. Take a quart of cream and milk, and a quarter of a pound of Naples biscuit, put them on the fire in a stewpan, and boil them up; take the yolks of eight eggs, the whites of four beat very fine, a little soft sugar, some marrow chopped, a small glass of brandy and sack, a little orange-flower-water ; mix all well together, and put them on the fire, keep stirring till it is thick, and put it away to get cold ; have a dish rimmed with puff-paste, put your stufl' in, sprinkle cur- rants that have been well washed in cold water, and rubbed clqan in a cloth, marrow cut in slices, and some candied lemon, orange and citron, cut in shreds, and send it to the oven ; three quarters of an hour will bake it: send it up hot. A boiled Suet Pudding. A quart of milk, four spoonfuls of flour, a pound of suet shred small, four eggs, a spoon- ful of beaten ginger, a tea-spoonful of salt: mix the eggs and flour with a pint of the milk very thick, and with the seasoning mix in the rest of the milk and suet. Let the batter be thick, and boil it two hours. A boiled Plum Pudding. Take a pound of suet cut in pieces, not too fine, a pound of currants, and a pound of I raisins stoned, eight eggs, half the whites, half a nut- meg grated, and a tea-spoonful of beaten ginger, a pound of flour, a pint of milk; beat the eggs first, add half the tl milk, beat them together, and by degrees stir in the flour, i then the suet, spice, and fruit, and as much milk as will mix it together very thick. Boil it five hours. A Yorkshire Pudding. Take a quart of milk, four eggs, (it and a little salt, make it up in a thick batter with flour, „ like pancake batter. Have a good piece of meat at the sr fire : take a stewpan, and put some dripping in, set it on the fire ; when it boils, pour in the pudding ; let it bake on the fire till you think it is nigh enough, then turn a plate upside down in the dripping-pan, that the dripping , may not be blacked ; set the stewpan on it, under the