Pudding (Manchester)

Instructions

1. Boil a pint of milk, then pour it boiling over six ounces of bread-crumbs.
2. When nearly cold, add two ounces of white sugar.
3. Beat up two ounces of butter and two eggs, and add them.
4. Butter a pudding-dish and lay a covering of jam at the bottom.
5. Pour the mixture over the jam and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes.
6. Enough for six. As nice hot as cold.