MANCHESTER PUDDING (to eat Cold)

Ingredients

• 3 oz grated bread
• 1/2 pint milk
• a strip of lemon-peel
• 4 eggs
• 2 oz butter
• sugar to taste
• puff-paste
• jam
• 3 tablespoonful brandy

Instructions

1. Flavour the milk with lemon-peel, by infusing it in the milk for 1/2 hour;
2. then strain it on to the bread crumbs, and boil it for 2 or 3 minutes;
3. add the eggs, leaving out the whites of 2, the butter, sugar, and brandy;
4. stir all these ingredients well together;
5. cover a pie-dish with puff-paste, and at the bottom put a thick layer of any kind of jam;
6. pour the above mixture, cold, on the jam, and bake the pudding for an hour.
7. Serve cold, with a little sifted sugar sprinkled over.