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Tease-pudding

From Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen (1900).

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A historical recipe

Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen, by Janet Ross (1900).

Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. two ounces of fresh butter
  2. one quart of shelled peas
  3. two ounces of butter

Method

  1. Melt two ounces of fresh butter in a saucepan, when browned put in one quart of shelled peas, add salt to taste, and mix for three minutes.
  2. Then moisten with strong stock (for maigre use fish soup) and add a little cinnamon and allspice.
  3. When the peas are soft to the touch rub them through a sieve.
  4. Meanwhile cook two ounces of butter in a sauce-pan, put in the puree of peas, stir, and add a tablespoonfid of flour, and then (stirring all the time) two pounded maccaroons, and three yolks of eggs.
  5. Take the peas off the fire and let them cool before mixing lightly with them three whites of eggs well beaten up.
  6. Butter a shape, put in the peas, and cook in a Bain-marie with fire above and below.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve
Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen (1900), printed page 84, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/leavesfromourtu01rossgoog

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.