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Gooseberry Pudding, Baked

Name: Gooseberry Pudding, Baked
Ingredients: gooseberries; 3 eggs; 1-1/2 oz. of butter; 1/2 pint of bread crumbs; sugar to taste; puff-paste

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Colonial dessert

Half-Pay Pudding

Time: About 40 minutes

Sufficient for 4 or 5 persons

Ingredients

gooseberries
3 eggs
1-1/2 oz. of butter
1/2 pint of bread crumbs
sugar to taste
puff-paste

Directions

Put the gooseberries into a jar, previously cutting off the tops and tails

Place this jar in boiling water, and let it boil until the gooseberries are soft enough to pulp

Beat them through a coarse sieve

To every pint of pulp add 3 well-whisked eggs, 1-1/2 oz. of butter, 1/2 pint of bread crumbs, and sugar to taste

Beat the mixture well

Put a border of puff-paste round the edge of a pie-dish

Put in the pudding, bake for about 40 minutes,

Strew sifted sugar over, and serve

Source: The Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton (1859)

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