Valentine Recipes - Delicious Puddings for Your Sweetheart

Valentine Recipe:1 HONEY PUDDING

Mix one-half cup of honey with six ounces of bread crumbs and add one-halfcup of milk, one-half teaspoon of ginger, grated rind of half a lemon and yolksof two eggs. Beat the mixture thoroughly and then add two tablespoons of butterand the whites of the eggs well beaten. Steam for about two hours in a puddingmold which is not more than three-quarters full.

Valentine Recipe:2 CHOCOLATE PUDDING

Take half a cake of chocolate broken in one quart of milk and put on therange until it reaches boiling point. Remove the mixture from the range. Addfour teaspoonfuls of cornstarch mixed with the yolks of three eggs and one cupand a half of sugar. Stir constantly until thick. Remove from the fire, flavorwith vanilla and pour the mixture in a dish. Beat the whites of the three eggsto a stiff froth and add a little sugar. Cover the top of the pudding with ameringue and set in the oven until a light brown. Serve cold.

Valentine Recipe:3 JELLY PUDDINGS.

Two cupfuls of fine stale biscuit or bread crumbs, one cupful of rich milkcream, if you can get it; five eggs beaten very light, half a teaspoonful ofsoda stirred in boiling water, one cupful of sweet jelly, jam or marmalade.Scald the milk and pour over the crumbs. Beat until half cold and stir in thebeaten yolks, then whites, finally the soda. Fill large cups half full with thebatter, set in a quick oven and bake half an hour. When done, turn out quicklyand dexterously. With a sharp knife make an incision in the side of each; pullpartly open, and put a liberal spoonful of the conserve within. Close the slitby pinching the edges with your fingers. Eat warm with sweetened cream.

Valentine Recipe:4 APPLE CUSTARD PUDDING.

Put a quart of pared and quartered apples into a stewpan, with half a cupfulof water and cook them until they are soft. Remove from the fire and add half acupful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter and the grated rind and the juiceof a lemon. Have ready mixed two cupfuls of grated bread crumbs and twotablespoonfuls of flour. Add this also to the apple mixture, after which stir intwo well-beaten eggs. Turn all into a well-buttered pudding-dish and bakeforty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with sugar and cream or hard sweetsauce.

Valentine Recipe:5 APRICOT PUDDING

Take 1 tin of apricots, 6 sponge cakes, 1/2 pint of milk, 2 eggs. Put theapricots into a saucepan and let them simmer with a little sugar for 1/2 anhour. Take them off the fire and beat them with a fork. Mix with them the spongecakes crumbled. Beat the eggs up with milk and pour it on the apricots. Pour themixture into a wetted mould and bake in a hot oven with a cover over the mouldfor 1/2 an hour. Turn out; serve either hot or cold.

Valentine Recipe:6 CARROT PUDDING

Take three or four clear red carrots, boil and peel them, take the red partof the carrot, beat it very fine in a mixing bowl, put to it the crumbs of apenny loaf, six eggs, half a pound of clarified butter, two or three spoonfulsof rose water, a little lemon-peel shred, grate in a little nutmeg, mix themwell together, bake it with a puff-paste round your dish and have a little whitewine, butter and sugar for the sauce.

Valentine Recipe:7 CHEESE PUDDING

Take breakfast-cupful of milk into a saucepan with a piece of butter the sizeof a large egg. Let it remain until the butter is melted, then pour it overthree-quarters of a pound of bread crumbs and half a pound of grated cheese; letthese soak for twenty minutes, then add a pinch of salt and 4 eggs, well beaten.Pour the mixture into a well-buttered dish and bake in a quick oven upto 40Minutes.

Valentine Recipe:8 DATE PUDDING

Melt three tablespoons of butter, add one-half cup of molasses, one-half cupof milk, one and two-third cups of flour sifted with one-half teaspoon ofbaking-soda, one-quarter teaspoon of salt, one-quarter teaspoon each of cloves,cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add to the above one-half pound of dates, stoned and cut.Turn into a well-buttered mold. Butter the cover also and steam two and one-halfhours. Keep at a steady boil. Serve with any kind of sauce.

Hope you will enjoy these Valentine's recipes. Happy Valentine's Day!

Amy Tylor is the Author of Pudding Recipes E-book: http://www.puddingrecipe.7try.com/She also maintains a Directory of Valentine day Recipes at: http://www.valentine-day.7try.com/valentine-day-recipe.html