Cottage Pudding

Cottage Pudding
Type Pudding
Course Dessert
Place of origin United States
Main ingredients Cake, glaze or custard
Cookbook:Cottage Pudding  Cottage Pudding

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 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.[1]

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.[2]

References

  1. womenshistory.about.com
  2. "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook", 11th Edition, published by Little, Brown and Company, original copyright 1896 by Fannie Merritt Farmer.