Cottage Pudding
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Cottage Pudding is a traditional American dessert consisting of a plain, dense cake served with a sweet glaze or custard. The glaze is generally cornstarch based and flavored with sugar, vanilla, chocolate, butterscotch, or one of a variety of fruit flavors such as lemon or strawberry.
History
One typical recipe is from Recipes Tried and True, a collection of recipes compiled in 1894 by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the First Presbyterian Church in Marion, Ohio.
Cottage Pudding can be baked over a fruit base, with a resulting dessert similar to a fruit cobbler, as in the recipe for Apple Pan Dowdy in The Fannie Farmer Cookbook.
Source: Cottage Pudding from Wikipedia
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Cottage Pudding (VRP 001)
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons shortening
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Sift together into a mixing bowl the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar.
- In a separate bowl, mix the milk and shortening.
- Stir gently into the flour mixture to combine.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
Cottage Pudding
Linda
Wednesday 13th of February 2019
Hi. I’m glad to see cottage pudding recipe. I would love the thin hot chocolate sauce recipe that mother would serve over the warm cake. Do you have one? Thanks for sharing!!!!
Leaper
Thursday 24th of December 2020
@Linda,
Chocolate Sauce
1 cup white sugar 2 Tbsp. cornstarch 1/2 tsp. salt Piece of butter 2 Tbsp. cocoa 2 cups hot water 1 tsp. vanilla
Boil the sauce ingredients together until thickened.