Jardinière-Style Spinach Pudding

Ingredients

• 1.5 dozen spinach
• bread crumb soaked in milk
• milk
• 6 egg yolks
• butter
• 4 egg whites
• salt
• pepper
• breadcrumbs
• toast (grilled or fried in butter)

Instructions

1. Cook a dozen and a half of well-cleaned spinach in unsalted water.
2. When well cooked, break it up with a spoon into a paste.
3. Mix in bread crumb soaked in milk and worked into a mass.
4. Add six egg yolks beaten with a piece of butter and four egg whites beaten to stiff peaks.
5. When well combined, season with salt and pepper.
6. Arrange in a buttered, breadcrumbed pudding mold and bake in the oven.
7. Serve with toast grilled or fried in butter.