Chapter XX · Entremets (Sweets) · No. 2482
2482—Biscuit Pudding
Crush eight oz. of lady’s-finger biscuits in a saucepan, and moisten them with one pint of boiling milk containing five oz. of sugar. Stir the whole over the fire, and add five oz. of candied fruit, cut into dice and mixed with currants (both products having been macerated in kirsch), three egg-yolks, four oz. of melted butter, and the white of five eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
Set to poach in a bain-marie, in a low, even Charlotte mould, or in a pie-dish, and serve an apricot sauce at the same time.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 2482, p. 730. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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