Cottage Pudding - American Recipe

Cottage Pudding

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●●○○○

🍳 Equipment: 2 bowls, Tablespoon, Dover beater, Sifter, Cake-pan

Classic American cottage pudding — simple, satisfying home baking.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons butter
• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• ¾ cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking-powder
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup milk
• ½ teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. Cream — the butter in a mixing-bowl.
2. Add — the sugar, and "cream" again.
3. Break — the egg, adding the yolk to the butter and sugar and putting the white in a separate bowl.
4. Beat — the egg with the sugar and butter.
5. Sift — the flour, baking-powder, and salt together.
6. Add — the flour mixture and the milk, alternately and a little at a time, to the materials in the mixing-bowl, and beat thoroughly with a mixing-spoon.
7. Beat — the egg-white and "fold" it into the mixture.
8. Pour — the mixture into a buttered cake-pan, and bake from twenty to thirty minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with Vanilla, Lemon, or Strawberry Sauce (pages 101-102).

Tags: milk, butter, egg, flour, sugar · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)