For a small pudding use one pint of milk, two
tablespoonfuls and a half of cornstarch, one ounce of Walter Baker &
Co.'s Chocolate, two eggs, five tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar,
one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, and half a teaspoonful of vanilla
extract.
Mix the cornstarch with one gill of the milk. Put the
remainder of the milk on to boil in the double-boiler. Scrape the
chocolate.
When the milk boils, add the cornstarch, salt, and
chocolate, and cook for ten minutes. Beat the yolks of the eggs with
three tablespoonfuls of sugar.
Pour the hot mixture on this, and
beat well. Turn into a pudding-dish that will hold about a quart, and
bake for twenty minutes in a moderate oven.
Beat the whites of
the eggs to a stiff, dry froth, and gradually beat in the remaining two
tablespoonfuls of sugar and the vanilla. Spread this on the pudding, and
return to the oven.
Cook for fifteen minutes longer, but with the
oven-door open. Serve either cold or hot.