Sippet Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 loaf bread
• marrow or butter
• 1 handful currants or stoned raisins
• 4 eggs
• 1 quart milk
• 1/4 pound sugar
• 1 nutmeg
• wine sauce

Instructions

1. Cut a loaf of bread as thin as possible.
2. Put a layer of it in the bottom of a deep dish, strew on some slices of marrow or butter, with a handful of currants or stoned raisins; do this till the dish is full, and let the currants or raisins be at the top.
3. Beat four eggs, and mix with them a quart of milk that has been boiled a little and become cold, a quarter of a pound of sugar, and a grated nutmeg.
4. Pour it in, and bake it in a moderate oven. Eat it with wine sauce.