Vintage Lemon Sponge Pudding - The Sunshine Recipe Book

Continuing in our series of lemon, is a recipe from the noted South African cook and cookery researcher Hilda Gerber.

The esteemed Ms Gerber partnered with the Citrus Board to editor The Sunshine Recipe Book, a comprehensive volume of “350 ways to using citrus fruit.”

 If you love citrus as much as I do, you will certainly love the gems in this book.

Our featured vintage recipe is Lemon Sponge Pudding.

Lemon Sponge Pudding

A baked pudding to be served cold

1 cup sugar

3 tablespoonfuls flour

3 tablespoonfuls lemon juice

2 eggs, separated

1 cup milk

A pinch of salt

Sift together all dry ingredients.

Add lemon juice, egg-yolks and milk and beat well.

Add stiffly beaten whites.

Pour into a buttered glass baking dish. Set dish in pan of hot water and bake at 325 deg. for 1 hour.

Cool and serve with top milk, custard or whipped cream. 

Enjoy!

The Vintage Kitchen 

Lemon Meringue Pie 1959

The joy of hunting for vintage recipe books is coming across unusual books to add to my collection. One such book is the ‘Kenya High School Recipe Book’.

Dating from 1959, this book was produced as a fundraiser for the building of the Kenya High School Chapel.

"The Kenya High School had its beginnings in 1910 when a co-educational school called the Nairobi European School began in buildings designed for police Barracks. In 1931 the boys were separated from the girls. In 1935, the school was renamed The European Girls Secondary School and had its first Headmistress, Miss Kerby appointed. The buildings consisted partly of temporary wooden huts located on the compound of the present Nairobi Primary school, with whom the secondary school shared the present buildings. Staff housing was scattered in the vicinity of Protectorate Hill. In 1939, the school was renamed The Kenya High School." http://www.kenyahigh.ac.ke/

The fundraising was obviously successful as the school chapel was dedicated in 1959. 

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One of the aspects I enjoy in vintage recipe books are the adverts:

  

For a quick and easy Lemon Meringue Pie, using a precooked pie shell, G.Baskin contributed this recipe:

Lemon Meringue Pie

1 cooked 9” pie shell

2 eggs

1 tin condensed milk

Sugar for meringue

½ cup lemon juice

Mix the condensed milk, egg yolk and lemon juice together. Pour into pie shell and top with egg whites beaten to meringue with sugar.

Place in oven for 2 to 3 minutes until the meringue is golden brown.

Delicious served with cream. 

Happy Baking!

The Vintage Kitchen