This is an eighteenth-century recipe, referred to in Gervase Markham’s The English Housewife (1615), an example of the white cream of the Middle Ages known as White Leche; ‘leche’ means ‘sliced’ and you cut the curd into slices. I find it a most unusual and delicious pudding. Curd is the set part of milk products either when they’re cooked or when rennet has been added to them, and whey is the leftover liquid that rem
