Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Alice’s Pudding. ✠

• 1 quart of milk.
• 4 eggs.
• 1 cup very fine dry bread-crumbs.
• ½ cup strawberry or other sweet jam.
• ½ cup sugar.

Butter a pudding-dish; sprinkle the bottom with bread-crumbs; pour over these half a cup jam, and cover this well with the rest of the crumbs, wet with a very little milk. Heat the quart of milk until near boiling, take it from the fire and add, gradually, the beaten yolks and sugar, stirring in the beaten whites lightly at the last. Heat this by degrees, stirring constantly until it begins to thicken; put it, spoonful by spoonful, upon the layer of bread-crumbs, taking care not to disturb these, and when all is in, bake until well “set” and very slightly browned.

Eat cold. Cream is a delicious accompaniment to it.