Wifes Sod

This recipe comes from the English county of Yorkshire. The sod is the stiffly beaten eggs, milk and seasoning.

Ingredients
5 large eggs
2 oatcakes
1 1/2 pints milk
salt
cinnamon
butter

Method
1 Grease a baking dish with butter.
2 Beat the egg for 2 minutes with a hand whisk until pale and very frothy.
3 Add the milk gradually, whisking inbetween.
4 Season well to taste.
5 Mix thoroughly.
6 Pour the mixture into greased baking dish.
7 Toast the oatcakes under a grill.
8 Butter the oatcakes well.
9 Cut up oatcakes into 1/2" pieces.
10 Sprinkle the oatcake pieces on top of the sod
11 Dot the sod with small pieces of butter
12 Bake for 20 mins in mod oven

Serve hot

Frumenty

This breakfast or pudding recipe is from the county of Leicestershire in England.

Ingredients
1 quart frumenty wheat
2 oz raisins
sugar to sweeten
1 quart milk
a little nutmeg
a little flour

Method
1 Wash wheat.
2 Place the wheat into a stone jar.
3 Fill the jar with three times the wheat's measure of water.
4 Place the jar into a hot oven.
5 Turn the oven off after about 5 minutes.
6 Leave in the oven for 24 hours. The husks should have burst and the wheat set to thick jelly. This process is to "cree" or stew the wheat, and it is then called "frumenty wheat."
7 Pour the frumenty wheat into a saucepan.
8 Add the milk and bring to the boil.
9 Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes.
10 Add the remaining ingredients except the flour, stir well until the mixture begins to thicken.
11 Stir in a little flour into a little milk to make into a cream.
12 Add the flour cream, stir constantly and bring to the boil.
13 Cook for 2 to 3 minutes and serve.

Serve immediately with either milk and sugar, or with eggs beaten in with it and cooked for a little longer, or as a sweet with fruit and cream.