Bread Pudding
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Bread-cube and cinnamon recipe
Clear Tote handwritten stove-design card
From faint reddish annotation ending 's Recipe, with the first name resembling Franie or Granie.
Ingredients
- the same quantities in singular and abbreviated card forms
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teas salt
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 loaf bread - 4 cups
- 3/4 cup raisins
- Cinnamon
Directions
- With fork, beat milk, sugar, vanilla, salt & eggs until well mixed.
- add bread, raisins & butter, toss till bread is well coated.
- Pour into a greased 1 qt casserole.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake 55 to 60 minutes. Test with knife in center.
Timing: Bake 55 to 60 minutes.
Equipment: fork; mixing bowl; baking vessel of unspecified form; oven; center-testing knife
As written
Ina's Favorite
Hot-milk and bread-crumb recipe
Blue Binder handwritten page
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup bread Crumbs; 3 cup hot milk
- 2 Beaten eggs
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 Tablespoon Butter
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1/2 cup raisins
Directions
- mix well applies to bread crumbs through butter; add applies to the indented vanilla and raisins lines
- add:
- Bake at 350°
- 35 to 40 min
Timing: 35 to 40 min
Temperature: 350°
Equipment: mixing equipment, an oven, and an unspecified baking vessel are required; only the oven is explicitly named by the baking notation
Compare the cards
Milk, sugar, vanilla, salt, eggs, bread, raisins, butter, and cinnamon
- Clear Tote handwritten stove-design card
- 1 1/2 cup milk, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 teas vanilla, 1/4 teas salt, 2 eggs, 1/2 loaf bread or 4 cups, 3/4 cup raisins, 1 tbls butter, and cinnamon
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- 1 1/2 cup bread crumbs, 3 cup hot milk, 2 beaten eggs, 2/3 cup sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tablespoon butter, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and 1/2 cup raisins; no cinnamon
Bread form
- Clear Tote handwritten stove-design card
- 1/2 loaf bread - 4 cups; the pieces are tossed until coated
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- 1 1/2 cup bread crumbs mixed with 3 cup hot milk
Mixing, finishing, and doneness test
- Clear Tote handwritten stove-design card
- Beat milk, sugar, vanilla, salt, and eggs with a fork; add bread, raisins, and butter and toss until coated; sprinkle with cinnamon; test the center with a knife
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- Mix the main block well, then add vanilla and raisins; no cinnamon finish or doneness test is stated
Oven setting and baking duration
- Clear Tote handwritten stove-design card
- Bake 55 to 60 minutes; no oven setting stated
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes
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