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Cottage Pudding With Vanilla Sauce
1/4 cup shortening
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cup flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
Cream shortening and sugar. Add egg. Combine dry ingredients and add to egg mixture alternately with the milk. Add vanilla. Mix well. Mixture will be somewhat heavy rather than thin. Place in greased square pan and bake at 350 degrees until toothpick comes clean, about 30 to 35 minutes. Serve while warm covered with vanilla sauce. Serves six to nine people.
Vanilla Sauce
1/4 cup butter or margarine
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3 tsp. cornstarch
1 cup water
2 tsp. vanilla
Place all ingredients except vanilla in a saucepan and cook until thick. Boil until sauce is clear, about five or six minutes. Add vanilla, cool and serve over Cottage Pudding.
More Recipes For You To Enjoy:I am so glad I have found this recipe!! My mom used to make this. I am going to make right now.!! Thank you
Wanted to pass the recipe on to the next generation – My brother’s daughter – on his birthday. Rest in Peace, Kevin.
This is the same recipe that has been used in my family for 5 generations. Thanks for posting it.
my grandma used to make this for church functions i now call it church cake
I use to make this. Kitty pudding cake 53 years know. The cook books do not have this recipe in them so happy yo find it
My grandmother made a cottage pudding with peaches in the bottom of the cake served with vanilla sauce. Except for the peaches, this sounds like her recipe…she made it only two or three times a year so we always looked forward to the amazing aroma of it baking and the delicious favors. Thank you for sharing.
I think. This sauce is the recipe I’ve been looking for too,,,I think it used to be in a old five roses cook book! We had this as kids too. On chocolate cake! Thank you
My late G’mother used to make this. Glad to find the recipe again. I make it with a tart sauce.
My husband loves this recipe and was so happy to find it. Thanks for sharing
Cottage Pudding is in the Betty Crocker recipe book from the 40’s. Here are the
ingredients:
1 3/4 c. sifted flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 t. salt
Cream together:
1/4 cup soft butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
1 t. vanilla
Bake in greased 9 x 9 pan at 350 degrees
for 20 min.
Can be frosted or with strawberries and whipped cream.
I poach fresh sliced pears in melted butter and brown sugar. While still warm, place on top of pieces of cottage pudding (with fresh grind of nutmeg) and
serve with unsweetened whipped cream.
My mom made this for us back in the sixties
I was very excited to come across this recipe. My husband and his brother’s Mom used to make this for them. I believe it came after World War2. It was a real job to stop them from eating the whole cake and sauce. I guess I’ll have to see if I can make it like Mom
Thank you,
Theresa