Amelia Simmons' Orange Pudding
By: Helen Pitlick
Published: Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 10:32pm

Ingredients




16 egg yolks
1/2 pound butter, melted
zest of two oranges
1/2 pound Sugar
2 teaspoons orange water
2 teaspoons rose water
1 pint gill of wine, half  cream
2 naples biscuits, the crumbs of a fine loaf, or roll soaked in cream
puff pastry

Preparation

1 Put sixteen yolks with half a pound butter melted, grate in the rinds of two Seville oranges, beat in half pound of fine Sugar, add two spoons orange water, two of rose water, one gill of wine, half pint cream, two naples biscuit or the crumbs of a fine loaf, or roll soaked in cream, mix all together, put it into rich puff-paste, which let be double round the edges of the dish; bake like a custard.

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From Amelia Simmons' American Cookery, 1792