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Corn-starch Blanc-mange

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Corn-starch Blanc-mange

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1 We measure the milk, and put it to heat in a kettle of hot water.

  2. 2 We wet the corn-starch smooth with a little cold water.

  3. 3 We add it to the milk when it is just at boiling-point.

  4. 4 We stay by and stir until it tastes cooked.

  5. 5 We add the flavoring, sugar, and salt.

  6. 6 We rinse the mould or cup with cold water.

  7. 7 We pour in the pudding, and when cool set on the ice. Now it is finished.

By Emily Huntington (1841–1909). Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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