Lattes, coffee-flavored candy, coffee ice cream. . . I like them all, so when I saw a recipe for Coffee Pudding in a hundred-year-old Ladies Home Journal I had to try it.
The verdict — I loved the Coffee Pudding. This delightful dessert was easy to make, and it sort of reminded me of a Frappuccino, but smoother and deceptively light. I thoroughly enjoyed the Coffee Pudding — and tried not to think about the hefty amounts of cream and sugar in it. (I’ll worry about that tomorrow.)
Coffee Pudding
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup cold coffee
dash salt
3/4 heavy whipping cream
Combine eggs, sugar, coffee, and salt; then put through a strainer to remove any clumps of egg white. Put the strained liquid into a sauce pan (use double boiler if available), and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils. Remove from heat and chill.
After the mixture has chilled, put the whipping cream in a separate bowl and beat until stiff peaks form. Gently fold the whipped cream into the chilled coffee mixture. If desired, put the pudding in individual serving cups or bowls.
Adapted from a recipe in Ladies Home Journal (February, 1915)
A Hundred Years Ago 
That’s a new one for me! I’ve never heard of coffee pudding – until now!
Until I saw the recipe in the hundred-year-old magazine, I’d never heard of it before either.
I’m one of those coffee nuts, so I’ve GOT to try this!!
If you like coffee desserts, you’ll love this.
Ohhh my!! Sounds delicious! I’ll be trying this for sure!
I guarantee that you’ll like it.
It’s seems very delightful and easy to make if you love coffee flavored desserts.
It was a fairly easy recipe to make. I like how many hundred-year-old recipes only have a few ingredients.
Me too.. I should post a few from the AMERICAN FAMILY COOKBOOK, I have an old copy from 1886? Mrs. Gillette’s recipes are written in paragraph form!
I enjoy coffee desserts, too, and this looks like a good one. But after one trial run, it’s only for company. I don’t need to eat an entire batch myself! It reminds me of a dessert my mother often served, called chocolate cream. I think I may even have thrown it out, because it involved such things as six eggs, a pound of butter, confectioners’ sugar, and cocoa. That was it. My arteries thanked me when it was gone.
This one isn’t so — laden. 🙂
I know what you mean. It’s way too easy to eat an entire batch of a dessert before I know it. I like your plan.
I love coffee anything. This looks good.
It is good!
Sounds delicious even though I don’t like coffee. I may give this one a try. ~Elle
This pudding definitely is coffee-flavored. If you don’t like coffee, you probably won’t like it.
I know plenty of people who would though! 😊
What if you substituted your favorite tea?
hmm. . . I haven’t tried it with tea, but it probably would work. If you make it using tea, report back to us how it turned out.
Definitely sounds delicious 🙂
It is very good.
Lorraine’s got it. You can substitute anything for the coffee and have a new pudding every day.
I like how you approach cooking. It makes a lot of sense that other liquids could be substituted for the coffee.
I think it’s funny that we think all our modern cold coffee drinks are new, and this recipe is 100 years old! 🙂 It sounds tasty, btw.
I think that people worried more about throwing left-overs (including coffee) out a hundred years ago than what they do now. The page in the magazine where I found this recipe contained several recipes that called for cold coffee. Another coffee recipe that I thought sounded good was for coffee buns (rolls). I may have to make it for a future post.
And I think it would kill me. What a lovely way to die …
It is a rich dessert, but it sure is good. 🙂
I’m going to do this one!!! My family loves this kinda of stuff. Wonderful find. 😄
I also was pleased to find it. Sometimes I look at old recipes and think. . . hmm. . . would I like this? . . . and other times I see a recipe and think that it sounds wonderful and I can hardly wait to try it. This recipe is an example of the latter.
Sounds so easy and delicious. 🙂
I like how it only has a few ingredients.
Looks very delicious! Would love to try this out since we love anything that has coffee
I also love desserts that contain coffee. I was pleasantly surprised to discover this morning that today was National Coffee Day. I had no clue that it was coming up when I did this post.
My goodness! This looks delectable!
It is yummy. 🙂
Looks yummy!
It is good. 🙂
I always think of coffee flavoured foods as a more modern trend – so interesting to see this.
I’ve seen several different 100-year-old recipes that call for coffee; usually within the context of using up leftovers. I think that it really bothered people back then if they had to throw away food (and they even hating throwing out a little coffee left in a pot), so they often had recipes that utilized leftovers.
Hi Sheryl, I love all things coffee and your recipe sounds awesome! I love old recipes! Hugz Lisa and Bear
I love old recipes, too. They are so much fun and generally very tasty–and often much simpler to make than many modern recipes.
It’s absolutely delicious!
I served it to a friend who didn’t know it was old. He’s one of those people who prefers everything modern; he has to have the last and latest.
He “ooh”ed and “ah”ed all the way through the pudding. Can you imagine his surprise when I told him it was a hundred-year-old recipe?
What a wonderful story! I love it. It’s fun to hear how surprised he was.
Looks like a great dessert!
I really liked it, and am planning to make it again very soon.