BOILED BREAD PUDDING

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861

Source: The Book of Household Management
Time: Cook: 75 min Total: 75 min
Yield: 6.5 – 7.0 persons
Status: success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (7)

1-1/2 pint of milk ↝ Milk, NFS [Milk, reduced fat]
3/4 pint of bread crumbs ↝ Bread, crumbs, dry, grated, seasoned [Baked Products]
sugar to taste ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
4 eggs ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]
1 oz. of butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
3 oz. of currants ↝ Currants, european black, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
1/4 teaspoonful of grated nutmeg ↝ Oil, nutmeg butter [Fats and Oils]

Instructions (5)

Make the milk boiling, and pour it on the bread crumbs; let these remain till cold.
Add the other ingredients, taking care that the eggs are well beaten and the currants well washed, picked, and dried.
Beat the pudding well, and put it into a buttered basin; tie it down tightly with a cloth, plunge it into boiling water, and boil for 1-1/4 hour.
Turn it out of the basin, and serve with sifted sugar.

Note on Bread

Any odd pieces or scraps of bread answer for this pudding; but they should be soaked overnight, and, when wanted for use, should have the water well squeezed from them.

Original Text

BOILED BREAD PUDDING.

1252. INGREDIENTS.—1-1/2 pint of milk, 3/4 pint of bread crumbs, sugar to taste, 4 eggs, 1 oz. of butter, 3 oz. of currants, 1/4 teaspoonful of grated nutmeg.

Mode.—Make the milk boiling, and pour it on the bread crumbs; let these remain till cold; then add the other ingredients, taking care that the eggs are well beaten and the currants well washed, picked, and dried. Beat the pudding well, and put it into a buttered basin; tie it down tightly with a cloth, plunge it into boiling water, and boil for 1-1/4 hour; turn it out of the basin, and serve with sifted sugar. Any odd pieces or scraps of bread answer for this pudding; but they should be soaked overnight, and, when wanted for use, should have the water well squeezed from them.

Time.—1-1/4 hour. Average cost, 1s.

Sufficient for 6 or 7 persons. Seasonable at any time.

BREAD.—Bread contains, in its composition, in the form of vegetable albumen and vegetable fibrine, two of the chief constituents of flesh, and, in its incombustible constituents, the salts which are indispensable for sanguification, of the same quality and in the same proportion as flesh. But flesh contains, besides these, a number of substances which are entirely wanting in vegetable food; and on these peculiar constituents of flesh depend certain effects, by which it is essentially distinguished from other articles of food.

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