The Southern Cook's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Old-Fashioned Southern Cooking Book

To Make an Almond Pudding

Take a pound of the best Jordan Almonds blanched in cold water, and beat very fine with a little Rose-water; then take a quart of Cream boiled with whole Spice, and taken out again, and when 'tis cold, mix it with the almonds, and put to it three Spoonfuls of grated Bread, one Spoonful of Flour, nine Eggs, but three Whites, half a Pound of Sugar, a Nutmeg grated; mix and beat these well together, put some Puff-paste at the Bottom of a Dish; put your Stuff in, and here and there stick a piece of Marrow in it. It must bake an Hour, and when 'tis drawn, scrape Sugar on it, and serve it up" (188).