Porcupine Pudding

Ingredients

• Six apples
• Sugar
• Two or three egg whites
• Almonds

Instructions

1. Peel and core apples. 
2. Create a syrup with sugar and water. 
3. Cook and roast apples in syrup. 
4. Put apples in a flat dish once they are soft. 
5. Thicken syrup before pouring it over the apples. 
6. Beat egg whites stiff. 
7. Shape egg whites in form of pudding on top of apples. 
8. Stick in bleached almonds all over the top. 
9. Brown it in the oven. 

- Miss Banks, S. C. 

Source - Cooking in Old Creole Days

Prepared by Jeanne Thibodeaux

Louisiana Anthology

January 11, 2015