Bread and Butter Pudding

Ingredients

• Cut thin slices of stale bread
• butter them
• Heat the milk
• and stir in sugar
• and the eggs, well beaten
• Currants, or chopped angelica, may be strewn on each slice of bread

Method

1. 1

   Fit them into your pudding dish till it is half full.

2. 2

   Pour this mixture over the bread and butter, and put a saucer on the slices to keep them in their place.

3. 3

   It will require at least a quarter of an hour for the bread to soak up the milk and eggs.

4. 4

   If the bread floats, lay a spoon across the top to keep it in its place.

5. 5

   Bake in a moderately hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery and housekeeping (1882) by Reeve, Henry Mrs., page 159. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bread and Butter Pudding. Cut thin slices of stale bread, butter them, and fit them into your pudding dish till it is half full. Heat the milk and stir in sugar and the eggs, well beaten. Pour this mixture over the bread and butter, and put a saucer on the slices to keep them in their place. It will require at least a quarter of an hour for the bread to soak up the milk and eggs. If the bread floats, lay a spoon across the top to keep it in its place. Bake in a moderately hot oven. 398 TAPIOCA PUDDING. Currants, or chopped angelica, may be strewn on each sHce of bread

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