[fruit puddings]

An apple Pudding Dumplin. 
Put into  paste,  quartered  apples,  lye in a cloth and boil two hours, serve with  sweet sauce. 
 
 
Pears, Plumbs,  &c. 
Are done the same way. 
 
Apple Pudding. 
One pound  apple  sifted, one pound  sugar,  9  eggs,  one quarter of a pound  butter,  one quart  sweet cream,  one gill  rose-water,  a  cinnamon,  a green  lemon peal  grated (if  sweet apples,  add the  juice of half a lemon,  put on to  paste No. 7.   Currants,   raisins  and  citron  some add, but good without them. 
 
 
Orange Pudding. 
Put sixteen  yolks  with half a pound  butter  melted, grate in the  rinds of two Seville oranges,  beat in half pound of fine  Sugar,  add two spoons  orange water,  two of  rose water,  one gill of  wine,  half pint  cream,  two  naples biscuit  or the  crumbs of a fine loaf,  or  roll  soaked in  cream,  mix all together, put it into rich  puff-paste,  which let be double round the edges of the dish; bake like a custard. 
 
 
A Lemon Pudding. 
1. Grate the  yellow of the peals of three lemons,  then take two whole  lemons,  roll under your hand on the table till soft, taking care not to burst them, cut and squeeze them into the grated peals. 
2. Take ten ounces soft  wheat bread,  and put a pint of scalded  white wine  thereto, let soak and put to No. 1. 
3. Beat four  whites  and eight  yolks,  and put to above, adding three quarters of a pound of  melted butter,  (which let be very fresh and good) one pound fine  sugar,  beat all together till thoroughly mixed. 
4. Lay  paste No. 7 or 9  on a dish, plate or saucers, and fill with above composition. 
5. Bake near 1 hour, and when baked--stick on pieces of  paste,  cut with a  jagging iron  or a  doughspur  to your fancy, baked lightly on a floured paper; garnished thus, they may be served hot or cold. 

American Cookery
Amelia Simmons
1798



Northampton
Massachusetts

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