BOILED BREAD PUDDING

Ingredients

• 1 cup bread crumbs; 1 pint milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla; Juice od 1 lemon; 4 tablespoons 4X sugar (confectioners)
• 2 eggs;
• 2 tablespoons sugar;;
• 6 tablespoons butter;
• About 3 tablespoons jelly;

Directions

1. Add milk and egg yolks to finely crumbled bread along with sugar and butter. Set over boiling water and cook until mixture thickens, stirring occasionally.
2. Add vanilla and pour immediately into pudding dish
3. Squeeze juice of lemon over top and dot with jelly.
4. Make meringue with stiffly beaten egg whites and the confectioners sugar. Place over jelly and set in hot oven or under broiler flame to brown meringue lightly.

Temperature

• over boiling water; hot oven or under broiler flame

Equipment

• measuring cups and spoons; double boiler or heatproof bowl over boiling water; stirring utensil; pudding dish; citrus juicer; mixing bowl; egg beater or mixer; oven or broiler