Baked Gooseberry Pudding

Ingredients

• Gooseberries
• 3 eggs
• 1-1/2 oz butter
• 1/2 pint bread crumbs
• sugar to taste

Instructions

1. Put the gooseberries into a jar, previously cutting off the tops and tails;
2. place this jar in boiling water, and let it boil until the gooseberries are soft enough to pulp;
3. then beat them through a coarse sieve, and to every pint of pulp add 3 well-whisked eggs, 1-1/2 oz. of butter, 1/2 pint of bread crumbs, and sugar to taste;
4. beat the mixture well, put a border of puff-paste round the edge of a pie-dish, put in the pudding, bake for about 40 minutes, strew sifted sugar over, and serve.