Recipe - Graham Birdsnest Pudding

Apples
Flour
1 cup Milk; sour
One half cup Sugar
1/3 teaspoon Baking soda

Lay in a deep dish, nice quartered apples, and pour over them a thin batter
made of flour, one teacup of sour milk, onehalf cup of sugar and about one
third of a teaspoon of soda. Bake in a moderate oven till the apples are
thoroughly cooked.

Baked in the manner of a fruit cobbler, we assume this apple dish was made
with graham, or whole wheat flour, although white flour was plentiful by
1861 and was preferred for dessert recipes. The quaint name may have
referred to its appearance and could have prompted California Farmer to
publish it.

Source: From Fingers to Finger Bowls a lively history of early
California Cooking, from Indian days to the gay 90's.

Posted on GEnie by COOKIE.LADY [Cookie], Jan 20, 1993 MM by Sylvia Steiger,
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