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Camp Pudding

A historical recipe from The Fun of Cooking, by Caroline French Benton (1914).

A historical recipe

The Fun of Cooking: A Story for Girls and Boys, by Caroline French Benton (1914). Project Gutenberg eBook #33213.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From The Fun of Cooking, by Caroline French Benton (1914). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #33213 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33213). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. 1/2 pound of dried prunes.
  2. 8 slices of bread, cut thin and buttered.
  3. 1/2 cup of sugar.
  4. 1 tablespoonful of butter.
  5. Wash the prunes and cover them with cold water, and let them stand all night.
  6. In the morning, put them on the fire in this water, and cook slowly till they are very soft;
  7. then take out the stones.
  8. Line a dish with the bread, cut in pieces, with a layer on the bottom;
  9. put on a spoonful of prunes and juice, then a layer of bread, and so on till the dish is full, with bread on top;
  10. sprinkle with sugar and bits of butter and bake brown.
  11. "My, but we've had a good time!" said Jack, thoughtfully rubbing the end of his sunburned nose as he watched the shores of the lake fade away the next day.
  12. "I never supposed it was such fun to camp.
  13. And I've become quite a cook;
  14. now haven't I, Father Blair?" "I should say you had.
  15. Too bad your mother and the girls can't know about it.
  16. But they will never know!" and his father smiled mischievously.
  17. "Well, perhaps some day I'll cook something for them," said Jack, sheepishly.
  18. "I don't mind knowing how to cook as much as I thought I should, now that I know men cook.
  19. I guess I'll surprise them some day, Father!"