Mrs Beetons Puddings and Desserts Revisited
Baked Bread and Butter Pudding
9 Thin Slices Of Bread and Butter
900ml (1½ pints) Milk
110g (4oz) Currants
4 Eggs
Sugar, to taste
Vanilla, Grated Lemon Peel or Nutmeg, to flavour
Cut 9 slices of bread thinly and butter them.
Place into a pie dish with currants between each layer and on the top.
Sweeten and flavour the milk, either by infusing with a little lemon peel, or by adding a few drops of vanilla essence.
Whisk the eggs and stir into the milk.
Strain this over the bread and butter.
Bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour, or rather longer.
This pudding may be very much enriched by adding cream, candied peel, or more eggs.
It should not be turned out, but served in the pie dish and is better for being made about 2 hours before it is baked.
Time: 1 hour, or rather longer.
Sufficient for 6 or 7 persons.
Seasonable at any time.
BAKED BREAD-AND-BUTTER PUDDING
1255. INGREDIENTS - 9 thin slices of bread and butter, 1-1/2 pint of milk, 4 eggs, sugar to taste, 1/4 lb. of currants, flavouring of vanilla, grated lemon-peel or nutmeg.
Mode - Cut 9 slices of bread and butter not very thick, and put them into a pie-dish, with currants between each layer and on the top. Sweeten and flavour the milk, either by infusing a little lemon-peel in it, or by adding a few drops of essence of vanilla; well whisk the eggs, and stir these to the milk. Strain this over the bread and butter, and bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour, or rather longer. This pudding may be very much enriched by adding cream, candied peel, or more eggs than stated above. It should not be turned out, but sent to table in the pie-dish, and is better for being made about 2 hours before it is baked.
Time - 1 hour, or rather longer.
Average cost, 9d.
Sufficient for 6 or 7 persons.
Seasonable at any time.
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