Chocolate Bread Pudding
2 cups stale bread crumbs
4 cups scalded milk
2 squares Baker’s chocolate
⅔ cup sugar
2 eggs
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
Soak bread in milk thirty minutes; melt chocolate in saucepan placed over hot water, add one-half sugar and enough milk taken from bread and milk to make of consistency to pour; add to mixture with remaining sugar, salt, vanilla, and eggs slightly beaten; turn into buttered pudding-dish and bake one hour in a moderate oven. Serve with Hard or Cream Sauce I.