Baked Ob Boiled Marrow Pudding

Ingredients

• 1/2 pint bread crumbs
• 1-1/2 pint milk
• 6 oz marrow
• 4 eggs
• 1/4 lb raisins or currants, or 2 oz. of each
• sugar and grated nutmeg to taste

Instructions

1. Make the milk boiling, pour it hot on to the bread crumbs, and let these remain covered for about 1/2 hour; shred the marrow, beat up the eggs, and mix these with the bread crumbs;
2. add the remaining ingredients, beat the mixture well, and either put it into a buttered mould and boil it for 2-1/2 hours, or put it into a pie-dish edged with puff-paste, and bake for rather more than 3/4 hour.
3. Before sending it to table, sift a little pounded sugar over, after being turned out of the mould or basin.