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Ginger Pudding

A historical dessert recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Ingredients

  • ⅓ cup Butter
  • ½ cup Sugar
  • 1 Egg
  • 2¼ cups Flour
  • 3½ teaspoons Baking Powder
  • ¼ teaspoon Salt
  • 2 teaspoons Ginger
  • 1 cup Milk

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and egg well beaten; mix and sift dry ingredients; add alternately with milk to first mixture. Turn into buttered mould, cover, and steam two hours; serve with Vanilla Sauce.

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Where this recipe comes from

Ginger Pudding, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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