No. 1532 — Simple White-Bread Pudding
English historical translation of Molokhovets recipe No. 1532 from the 1901 Russian cookbook, retaining original methods and measures.
Remove the crust from one and a half stale French rolls, crumble the crumb into a stoneware bowl and pour on one and a half glasses boiling milk.
Mash with a spoon, leave for an hour to swell, then mash again until smooth.
Add four lumps of sugar, optionally an eighth of a Russian pound of butter, and four eggs. Mix and put in a mould.
Bake about half an hour. Flavour with zest of half a lemon if desired.
Serve sugar with cream or milk, or cranberry, almond, chocolate, red-wine or berry sauce.
To provide
1½ French rolls 1½ glasses milk and 4 eggs 4 sugar lumps and ½ or 1½ spoonfuls butter | Lemon zest, sugar and cream Or sauce separately |