The Boston cooking-school cook book

cup raisins, parboiled in boiling water to cover and seeded, may be sprinkled between layers of bread. Bread and Butter Apple Pudding Cover bottom of a shallow baking-dish with apple sauce. Cut stale bread in one-third inch slices, spread with softened butter, remove crusts, and cut in triangular-shaped pieces; then arrange closely together over apple. Sprinkle generously with sugar, to which is added a few drops vanilla. Bake in a moderate oven and serve with cream. Chocolate Bread Pudding 2 cups stale bread crumbs 4 cups scalded milk 2 squares Baker’s chocolate ⅔ cup sugar 2 eggs ¼ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla Soak bread in milk thirty minutes; melt chocolate in saucepan placed over hot water, add one-half sugar and enough milk taken from bread and milk to make of consistency to pour; add to mixture with remaining sugar, salt, vanilla, and eggs slightly beaten; turn into buttered pudding-dish and bake one hour in a moderate oven. Serve with Hard or Cream Sauce I. Mock Indian Pudding ½ small loaf baker’s entire wheat bread 3½ cups milk ½ cup molasses Butter Remove crusts from bread and cut into five slices of uniform thickness. Spread generously with butter, arrange in baking-dish, pour over three cups of milk and molasses. Bake from two to three hours in a very slow oven, stirring three times during the first hour of baking, then add remaining milk. Serve with cream or vanilla ice cream. Bangor Pudding 1⅓ cups cracker crumbs Boiling water 2 cups milk ⅓ cup molasses 1 egg 1 cup raisins Moisten cracker crumbs with boiling water, and let stand until cool. Add milk, molasses, egg slightly beaten, and raisins seeded and cut in pieces. Turn into a buttered pudding mould, and steam eight hours. Let stand in mould to cool. Serve cold with Cream Sauce II. Steamed Lemon Pudding 8 small slices stale bread Lemon mixture 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons sugar 2 eggs Grated rind 1 lemon ⅛ teaspoon salt Spread bread with lemon mixture, and arrange in buttered pudding mould. Beat eggs slightly, add sugar, salt, and milk; strain,