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From: "Sue" <>
Subject: recipes
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:01:05 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
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Ooooooh the calories !!!! ........ But I wouldn't mind trying just a
wee-slice" .... :-)) ....

Sue


Hi Nancy,

I have acquired a very interesting book titled "The Compleat Housewife" by
Eliza Smith.
"....with her collection of over eight-hundred recipes, Eliza Smith reminds
us just how much the woman of her time was expected to know, from marketing,
cooking,
brewing and preserving, to curing every kind of medical condition...first
published in 1758, nearly thirty years after the author's death..."

Here is her recipe for A Bread and Butter Pudding for Fasting-Days:

Take a two penny loaf, and a pound of fresh butter; spread it in very thin
slices, as to eat; cut them off as you spread them, and stone half a pound
of raisins, and wash a pound of currants; then put puff-paste at the bottom
of a dish, and lay a row of your bread and butter, and strew a handful of
currants, a few raisins, and some little bits of butter, and so do till your
dish is full; then boil three pints of cream and thicken it when cold with
the yolks of ten eggs, a grated nutmeg, a little salt, near half a pound of
sugar, and some orange flower-water; pour this in just as the pudding is
going into the oven.

For Scandinavian recipes I suggest the Denmark list of which my husband Rock
is the listowner, you will get a lot of information there!

Glennis
Hawaii

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