Name: Nectaeine Ice Pudding
Ingredients: 1½ dozen nectarines; ice custard (see recipe No. 482); lemon juice

Nectaeine Ice Pudding

Ingredients

1½ dozen nectarines
ice custard (see recipe No. 482)
lemon juice

Directions

Pass the nectarines through a sieve.
Mix the nectarines with the ice custard and add some lemon juice.
Freeze the mixture (see recipe No. 483).

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.

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What each ingredient does

Nectarines: Provide the main fruit flavour and the bulk of the pudding's body once sieved.
Ice custard: Supplies the creamy base that gives the frozen pudding its smooth, rich texture.
Lemon juice: Adds acidity that brightens the fruit flavour and balances its sweetness.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.