Recipe: Another vintage find for family gatherings
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Orange pudding has a meringue topping, similar to lemon meringue pie. (Photos: Debbie Arrington) |
This vintage dessert is part cake, part pie, which makes it a "Different Orange Pudding."
I found this golden oldie in my great-grandmother's recipe box, the same resource that yielded "Asparagus a la Sacramento." The pudding recipe was clipped from a magazine, using the same format as the asparagus.
Attributed to "Mrs. R.P.O., Yuba City," the original recipe appeared in Sunset magazine in spring 1937. It was like no pudding recipe I had ever read, orange or not.
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A thin layer of meringue conceals the mess underneath. |
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