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Spanish Pudding

A historical recipe from Dr. Allinson's cookery book, comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes, by Allinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard) (1915).

A historical recipe

Dr. Allinson's cookery book, comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes, by Allinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard) (1915). Project Gutenberg eBook #13887.

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

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From Dr. Allinson's cookery book, comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes, by Allinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard) (1915). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #13887 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13887). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Spain. Associated with Spain by a demonym leading its title: Spanish (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. 8 sponge cakes, 1 pot of apricot jam, 1 pint of milk, 3 eggs, 1/2 oz.
  2. of butter.
  3. Slice the sponge cakes lengthways, grease a mould with the butter;
  4. line it neatly with some of the slices of the sponge cakes;
  5. press them to the mould to keep them in position.
  6. Next spread a layer of apricot jam, and fill the mould with alternate layers of sponge cake and jam.
  7. Beat up the yolks of the eggs and mix them with the milk;
  8. pour the mixture over the pudding, and bake it in a slow oven until set.
  9. Let the pudding get cold, and turn it out carefully.
  10. Have ready the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, with a little sugar;
  11. pile the froth over the pudding, and serve with custard.