A PLAIN CABINET or BOILED BREAD-AND-BUTTER PUDDING

Ingredients

• 2 oz raisins
• a few thin slices of bread and butter
• 3 eggs
• 1 pint milk
• sugar to taste
• 1/4 nutmeg

Instructions

1. Butter a pudding-basin, and line the inside with a layer of raisins that have been previously stoned;
2. then nearly fill the basin with slices of bread and butter with the crust cut off, and, in another basin, beat the eggs;
3. add to them the milk, sugar, and grated nutmeg;
4. mix all well together, and pour the whole on to the bread and butter;
5. let it stand 1/2 hour, then tie a floured cloth over it;
6. boil for 1 hour, and serve with sweet sauce.
7. Care must be taken that the basin is quite full before the cloth is tied over.