Gram's Cottage Pudding Recipe, An Odd Old Man, and 1886 Advice from Aunt Patty

Something from almost nothing....that is cottage pudding.  It is something you make when being a good, frugal housekeeper.

This is Gram's recipe.  Gram was born in 1889, so Aunt Maggie's recipe is probably from this pre-20th century period.   Compared to more modern recipes this does not have much sugar. Check out the sauce, for instance! Did Gram forget to write down the sugar or did the strawberries carry the sugar?   Guess I'll have to try it...waiting til strawberry season, of course, like a good housewife should.

Recipes for everything and anything are in this, not atypical, book for 1888.  

Would you buy a pudding from this man?

Cottage Pudding - 1894 Style
By Jone Johnson Lewis on About.com
From a 19th century recipe for cottage pudding
Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cups flour
1 Tablespoon butter 2 Tablespoons butter 1 cup white sugar
1 Tablespoon flour
1 pint boiling water lemon to taste
Preparation:
One cup of sugar, one­half cup of milk, one and one­half cups of flour; and one tablespoonful of butter; bake as a cake, and serve with this­­
SAUCE.­­Two tablespoonfuls butter, one cup white sugar, and one tablespoon flour, wet in cold water; one pint of boiling water. Let boil two or three minutes, stirring all the time. Flavor with lemon.
MRS. JENNIE KRAUSE.
Recipes 1894 Style1 |Puddings 1894 Style2
Adapted from Recipes Tried and True, compiled by the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Presbyterian Church, Marion, Ohio, 1894, a source in the public domain.
The recipes in this collection are representative of cooking in America in the late 19th century, and the compilation of a cookbook shows the ways in which women were beginning to organize and act both within their traditional roles and outside of traditional expectations. The recipes are presented exactly as written in 1894, and may not conform to current nutritional or food preparation standards. Try at your own risk.
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