Ratafia Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 French roll
• 0.5 pound ratafia cakes
• milk or cream
• 3 ounces fresh butter
• 5 eggs
• 2 eggs
• sugar
• 1 ounce almonds
• bitter almonds
• dried cherries
• bread crumbs

Instructions

1. Soak the crumb of a French roll and half a pound of ratafia cakes in milk or cream. Mix in the warmed fresh butter, the yolks of five eggs and the whites of two eggs. Sweeten to taste and add one ounce of pounded almonds and a few bitter almonds.
2. Boil the mixture in a pudding shape (mould) lined with dried cherries, or alternatively bake it in a well-buttered cake-tin that has been sprinkled with bread crumbs.