Bird's Nest Pudding Recipe

Ingredients for Bird's Nest Pudding Recipe

• 3 eggs
• ¾ cup flour
• 6 tablespoons vegetable shortening
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup blanc-mange
• Pinch baking powder
• Pistachio nuts or cocoanut
• Angelica and apricot jam

Instructions

1. Break eggs into basin, add sugar to them, and beat over saucepan of hot water until mixture is consistency of thick cream.
2. Melt vegetable shortening; sieve flour and baking powder together.
3. Stir vegetable shortening and flour quickly and lightly into egg mixture, turn into a mold, and bake in a moderate oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
4. Turn out when done, and let the cake get cold.
5. Rub some apricot jam through a hair sieve, put a thin layer of this over the cake, roll it either in chopped pistachio nuts or desiccated cocoanut.
6. Stand on a dish.
7. Have ready some blanc-mange eggs, fill the center with these, and arrange round the base of the nest some pieces of angelica to represent twigs.
8. It is now ready to serve.
9. The blanc-mange eggs are made by either filling some egg-molds with blanc-mange, or by emptying out some eggs, and using the shells.
10. The eggs must be emptied through as small a hole as possible.
11. When set, the shells are broken away carefully.