Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery: The "All About It" Books

2 oz. of butter, 4 eggs, a little salt. _Mode._—Mix the flour with a small quantity of cold milk; make the remainder hot, and pour it on to the flour, keeping the mixture well stirred; add the butter, eggs, and salt; beat the whole well, and put the pudding into a buttered pie-dish; bake for ¾ hour, and serve with sweet sauce, wine sauce, or stewed fruit. Baked in small cups, very pretty little puddings may be made; they should be eaten with the same accompaniments as above. _Time._—¾ hour. _Average cost_, 9_d._ _Sufficient_ for 5 or 6 persons. _Seasonable_ at any time. BATTER PUDDING, Baked, with Dried or Fresh Fruit. _Ingredients._—1½ pint of milk, 4 tablespoonfuls of flour, 3 eggs, 2 oz. of finely-shredded suet, ¼ lb. of currants, a pinch of salt. _Mode._—Mix the milk, flour, and eggs to a smooth batter; add a little salt, the suet, and the currants, which should be well washed, picked, and dried; put the mixture into a buttered pie-dish, and bake in a moderate oven for 1¼ hour. When fresh fruits are in season, this pudding is exceedingly nice, with damsons, plums, red currants, gooseberries, or apples; when made with these, the pudding must be thickly sprinkled over with sifted sugar. Boiled batter pudding, with fruit, is made in the same manner, by putting the fruit into a buttered basin, and filling it up with batter made in the above proportion, but omitting the suet. It must be sent quickly to table, and covered plentifully with sifted sugar. _Time._—Baked batter pudding, with fruit, 1¼ to 1½ hour; boiled ditto, 1½ to 1¾ hour, allowing that both are made with the above proportion of batter. Smaller puddings will be done enough in ¾ or 1 hour. _Average cost_, 10_d._ _Sufficient_ for 7 or 8 persons. _Seasonable_ at any time, with dried fruits. BATTER PUDDING, Boiled. _Ingredients._—3 eggs, 1 oz. of butter, 1 pint of milk, 3 tablespoonfuls of flour, a little salt. _Mode._—Put the flour into a basin, and add sufficient milk to moisten it; carefully rub down all the lumps with