Brown Bread Pudding. No. 3. Gotha.
(A national dish! Why don't they stone their cherries ?)
Stew ½ lb. of cherries, fresh or preserved.
Take a large basin and put into it 6 ozs. of brown bread. crumbs, 3 ozs. of powdered sugar, the yolks of 4 eggs well beaten, the grated rind of ½ lemon, a little powdered cinnamon and a little salt, also ¼ pt. of whipped cream. Mix all well together.
Lastly whip up the 4 whites or egg, and add them to the other things in the basin. Then butter a plain mould and strew it with brown bread-crumbs. Spread a tablespoonful of the mixture at he bottom of the mould, cover it with some of the cherries, and so on till the mould is full. Next put the pudding into a tin of hot water and bake it in the oven 1 hour