1 pint milk, 1 teaspoon butter, 1 cup cocoanut chips, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 cup biscuits crumbs, 3 eggs, 1&1/2 cups stewed apples (stewed with very little water).
Method: Warm milk and butter; add cocoanut, sugar and biscuit crumbs; separate yolks from whites of eggs and add to the mixture. Pour half of mixture in a greased piedish; spread on the apples and cover with remainder of mixture. Bake for 1/2 hr. Beat egg whites until stiff, add 3 tablespoons castor sugar; place on top of pudding and return to oven until lightly set and a pale brown.
Source: The Golden Wattle Cookery Book. Compiled by Ladies of the Kindergarten Committee. In aid of Kindergarten Funds. (Lobethal: 1948), p.28.
(Note: on the 'Cleopatra' apple, see https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/90620402.)
aah I've often wondered what Cleopatra had for dessert :)
ReplyDeleteProbably nicer than something made of ass's milk!
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