Bread-and-Butter Pudding

Ingredients

• 6 thin slices of bread and butter
• half an ounce of clarified dripping
• 1 oz. of currants
• 1 tablespoonful of moist sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 pint of milk
• half a teaspoonful of nutmeg

Method

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   Butter and cut bread into slices.

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   Grease a pie dish with clarified dripping.

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   Wash and prepare currants.

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   Layer bread and currants in the dish.

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    Beat eggs, add sugar and milk, pour over bread.

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    Grate nutmeg on top and let soak for 30 minutes.

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    Bake in a moderate oven for about half an hour.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The official handbook for the National Training School for Cookery (1891) by National Training School for Cookery (London), page 130. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BREAD-AND-BUTTER PUDDING. Average cost of " Bread-aud- Butter Pudding" (in one-pint dish). INGREDIENTS. d. 6 thin slices of bread and butter 4 J oz. of clarified dripping \ 1 oz. of currants L Gj Nutmeg, and 1 tablespoonful of moist sugar J 2 eggs 2 1 pint of milk 2§ IT Time reqtiired, abotit one hour. Now we will show you how to make Bread-and-Butter Pudding. 1. We butter, and cut six thin slices of bread. 2. We grease the inside of a pint pie disk, with half an ounce of clarified dripping. 3. We take one ounce of currants, wash them well, dry them in a clean cloth, and pick them over. 4. We lay the slices of bread and butter in the pie dish, and sprinkle the currants between each slice of bread and butter. N.B. — One ounce of candied peel, chopped up fine, might be sprinkled in as well, if liked. 5. We break two eggs into a cup, and beat them up well, we add to them a tablespoonful of moist sugar and a pint of milk, and stir them well together. 6. We pour this custard over the bread and butter in the pie dish, take a grater and a nutmeg, and grate about half a teaspoonful of nutmeg

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