Sick Day: Arrowroot Pudding

Ingredients 

1/2 litre milk

3 tbsp arrowroot powder

2 tsp sugar

Optional toppings: green apple, nutmeg, date syrup, and/or Ovaltine drink powder

Instructions: Please find them from a cook on YouTube here.

Image from page 137 of "Diet in illness and convalescence" (1899)
Author: Alice Worthington Winthrop
Published in New York/London: Harper & Brothers
Found on Flickr: Internet Archive Book Images

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When I woke up this morning with a sore throat, I followed the example of Britons in the Regency and Victorian periods, cooking an arrowroot pudding.

 (Arrowroot is mentioned in Jane Austen's Emma)

Arrowroot has been tricky to get right. The key is not to let the milk boil before the arrowroot powder is added. Besides it is necessary to wait for the pudding to thicken, stirring until it reaches a thick and glossy consistency like vanilla pudding.

I ate the pudding warm, after fifteen minutes or so in the hay box, instead of letting it set.

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Sources:

How to make Arrowroot powder pudding ||Simple Recipes [YouTube] December 11, 2020.

"Arrowroot" [Wikipedia]

"Arrow-root Blanc-mange." in Three meals a day : a choice collection of valuable and reliable recipes in all classes of cookery and a comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home including toilet, health and housekeeping departments, cooking recipes, menus, table etiquette, and a thousand facts worth knowing by Maud C. Cooke. 1902. [Archive.org]