Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Bread Pudding

Ingredients

  • 2 cups milk
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1/2 loaf of sweet egg bread cut into 2 inch cubes
  • 2 eggs (beaten)

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a small saucepan over low heat, add warm milk, butter, vanilla, sugar and salt.
  2. Continue cooking just until butter melts; cool. Meanwhile, butter a 4-to-6-cup baking dish and fill it with cubed bread.
  3. Add eggs to cooled milk mixture and whisk; pour mixture over bread. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes, or until custard is set but still a little wobbly and edges of bread have browned.
  4. Serve at room temperature.
Source — Times Cooking
Prepared by Laura Hurd
Louisiana Anthology
January 5, 2021

Bread Pudding

Ingredients

  • 2 cups milk
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1/2 loaf of sweet egg bread cut into 2 inch cubes
  • 2 eggs (beaten)

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a small saucepan over low heat, add warm milk, butter, vanilla, sugar and salt.
  2. Continue cooking just until butter melts; cool. Meanwhile, butter a 4-to-6-cup baking dish and fill it with cubed bread.
  3. Add eggs to cooled milk mixture and whisk; pour mixture over bread. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes, or until custard is set but still a little wobbly and edges of bread have browned.
  4. Serve at room temperature.
Source — Times Cooking
Prepared by Laura Hurd
Louisiana Anthology
January 5, 2021

Cottage Cake

Ingredients

  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teacup of brown sugar
  • 2 teacups of molasses
  • 1 teacup of beaten ginger
  • 2 teacups of butter
  • 1 teacup of cream or milk
  • Pinch of baking soda
  • 3 cups of flour
  • Lemon or Orange zest

Directions

  1. Take the 3 eggs (separately beaten), and mix with all other ingredients except for zest until evenly mixed.
  2. Mix until it has the consistency of a pound cake.
  3. Add zest of choice to enhance flavor.
  4. Bake in either large or small tins.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Laura Hurd
Louisiana Anthology
January 5, 2021

Cottage Cake

Ingredients

  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teacup of brown sugar
  • 2 teacups of molasses
  • 1 teacup of beaten ginger
  • 2 teacups of butter
  • 1 teacup of cream or milk
  • Pinch of baking soda
  • 3 cups of flour
  • Lemon or Orange zest

Directions

  1. Take the 3 eggs (separately beaten), and mix with all other ingredients except for zest until evenly mixed.
  2. Mix until it has the consistency of a pound cake.
  3. Add zest of choice to enhance flavor.
  4. Bake in either large or small tins.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Laura Hurd
Louisiana Anthology
January 5, 2021

Diet Bread

Ingredients

  • 1 pound of flour
  • 1 pound of sugar
  • Pinch of mace seasoning
  • Grated nutmeg
  • Splash of rose water
  • 6 eggs
  • Pinch of salt

Directions

  1. Sift flour and sugar then add mace.
  2. Mix in grated nutmeg and splash of rose water and stir well together.
  3. Beat the 6 eggs lightly and add pinch of salt.
  4. Once all ingredients are mixed, bake slowly in a pan.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Laura Hurd
Louisiana Anthology
January 5, 2021

Diet Bread

Ingredients

  • 1 pound of flour
  • 1 pound of sugar
  • Pinch of mace seasoning
  • Grated nutmeg
  • Splash of rose water
  • 6 eggs
  • Pinch of salt

Directions

  1. Sift flour and sugar then add mace.
  2. Mix in grated nutmeg and splash of rose water and stir well together.
  3. Beat the 6 eggs lightly and add pinch of salt.
  4. Once all ingredients are mixed, bake slowly in a pan.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Laura Hurd
Louisiana Anthology
January 5, 2021

Stewed Carrots

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds of carrots
  • 4 cups of milk
  • Pinch of Salt
  • Pinch of pepper
  • Chopped Parsley
  • Fresh butter rolled in flour

Directions

  1. Half boil carrots and scrape them nicely.
  2. Cut the carrots into thick slices and put them in the stewpan.
  3. Add the milk to barely cover them, along with salt, pepper, and parsley.
  4. Simmer until perfectly tender.
  5. When they are nearly done, add fresh butter rolled in flour, send them to the table hot.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Laura Hurd
Louisiana Anthology
January 5, 2021