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Danish Pudding

A historical recipe from Miss Parloa's New Cook Book, by Maria Parloa.

A historical recipe

Miss Parloa's New Cook Book, by Maria Parloa. Project Gutenberg eBook #6745.

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 Miss Parloa's New Cook Book, by Maria Parloa. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #6745 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6745). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Denmark. Associated with Denmark by a demonym leading its title: Danish (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. One cupful of tapioca, three generous pints of water, half a teaspoonful of salt, half a tea-cupful of sugar, one tumbler of any kind of bright jelly.
  2. Wash the tapioca, and soak in the water all night.
  3. In the morning put on in the double boiler, and cook one hour.
  4. Stir frequently.
  5. Add the salt, sugar and jelly, and mix thoroughly.
  6. Turn into a mould that has been dipped in cold water, and set away to harden.
  7. Serve with cream and sugar.