Empress Pudding

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb rice
• 2 oz butter
• 3 eggs
• jam
• sufficient milk to soften the rice

Instructions

1. Boil the rice in the milk until very soft;
2. then add the butter boil it for a few minutes after the latter ingredient is put in, and set it by to cool.
3. Well beat the eggs, stir these in, and line a dish with puff-paste;
4. put over this a layer of rice, then a thin layer of any kind of jam, then another layer of rice, and proceed in this manner until the dish is full; and bake in a moderate oven for 3/4 hour.
5. This pudding may be eaten hot or cold;
6. if the latter, it will be much improved by having a boiled custard poured over it.