Bread Pudding

2 cups stale bread crumbs

1 quart scalded milk

⅓ cup sugar

¼ cup melted butter

2 eggs

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla or

¼ teaspoon spice

Soak bread crumbs in milk, set aside until cool; add sugar, butter, eggs slightly beaten, salt, and flavoring; bake one hour in buttered pudding-dish in slow oven; serve with Vanilla Sauce. In preparing bread crumbs for puddings avoid using outside crusts. With a coarse grater there need be but little waste.