INTERESTING RECIPE FORM AN OLD COOK-BOOK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 348, 1 May 1935, Page 2

INTERESTING RECIPE FORM AN OLD COOK-BOOK.

Eve's Pudding,

The metre may not tie very good, but flii.- recipe, taken from an old cook-book, is interesting and may be

worth whip* trying:—

If you'd have a. good pudding, pray mind what you’re taught;

Take a pennyworth of eggs when

there’s twelve for n groa.

Take of, (he same fruit, ‘tis said

Eve did once cozen

When Pared and well chopped at least haft' a dozen; Six ounces of bread (give a beggar the crust), And grater the crumb as small as the dust;

Six ounce* of currants well cleaned from the dirt, Lest they break your poor teeth and spoil all your sport; The rind of a lemon, grated quite thin, Will do it no harm if you put the whole in, Six ounces of sugar will not make it too sweet, Some nutmeg and salt will make it complete, Now boil, it three hours without hurry or flutter, And then serve it up with some good melted butter