Bread Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 loaf stale bread
• 1 pint milk
• 6 eggs
• 1/2 pound butter
• 1/2 pound sugar
• 1/2 nutmeg
• 1 glass brandy
• lemon peel
• paste

Instructions

1. Grate the crumb of a stale loaf and pour on it a pint of boiling milk.
2. Let it stand an hour, then beat it to a pulp.
3. Add six eggs well beaten, half a pound of butter, the same of powdered sugar, half a nutmeg, a glass of brandy, and some grated lemon peel.
4. Put a paste in the dish and bake it.