Orange Pudding (Orang Puding)

Ingredients

3 oranges
1 1/4 pints milk
1 1/2 oz cornflour
1 oz butter
3 oz sugar
2 eggs
pinch of salt

Method

• Peel the oranges, cut in pieces and place in a buttered dish.
• Mix cornflour with a little of the milk.
• Boil remainder of milk, add to the cornflour paste and cook for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Add the butter and a pinch of salt.
• Sprinkle a little sugar over the oranges.
• Mix the rest of the sugar with the yolks of the eggs, and add to the milk and cornflour mixture.
• Stir for a minute or two longer over the fire without boiling.
• Pour over the oranges and bake for 10 minutes.
• Beat the egg whites stiffly, fold in a little castor sugar, pie on top and return to cool oven for abut 10 minutes, to set and tinge a very pale brown.