Name: Bread and Butter Pudding #1
Ingredients: 6 sl White bread; stale or fresh; Currants; sultanas or raisins (enough to take in generous handfuls); Butter or margarine; 2 Eggs; 1/2 pt Milk (that's 10 fl oz to ppl in the US - not 8!); Sugar

A zealous man in religion is pre-eminently a man of one thing. It is not enough to say that he is earnest, hearty, uncompromising, wholehearted, fervent in spirit. He only sees one thing, he cares for one thing, he lives for one thing, he is swallowed up in one thing; and that one thing is to please God. Whether he lives, or whether he dies, whether he has health, or whether he has sickness, whether he is rich, or whether he is poor, whether he pleases man, or whether he gives offense, whether he is thought wise, or whether he is thought foolish, whether he gets blame, or whether he gets praise, whether he gets honor, or whether he gets shame, for all this the zealous man cares nothing at all. He burns for one thing; and that one thing is to please God, and to advance God’s glory. If he is consumed in the very burning, he cares not for it; he is content. He feels that, like a lamp, he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him.

J.C. Ryle

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Dessert	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6	sl	White bread; stale or fresh
		Currants; sultanas or raisins (enough to take in generous handfuls)
		Butter or margarine
2		Eggs
1/2	pt	Milk (that's 10 fl oz to ppl in the US – not 8!)
		Sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

From: markc@compnews.co.uk (Mark A. Cooper)
Serves 4 (or a greedy 2, or even a really piggy 1)
1. Preheat the oven to 210 deg. C/Gas Mark 6.
2.  Butter the bread, hack the crusts off and cuts into strips (or
"soldiers")
3.  Place some of the "soldiers" butter side down in a 1 litre (2 pint)
ovenproof glass bowl - enough to cover the bottom.
4.  Sprinkle a handful of the dried fruit over the bread.
5.  Sprinkle a teaspoon of sugar over the fruit.
6.  Place more "soldiers" at right angles to the last lot (my methods are
terrible!) , making sure you line the bowl.
7.  Repeat stages 4 to 6 until you have run out of bread or filled the bowl
(the two things *do* usually happen together, thank goodness)
8.  Beat the two eggs in another bowl with the milk.
9.  Pour the mixture over the bread, fruit and sugar and leave to stand for
at least 30 minutes.
10.  Put bowl in oven and cook until the bread has turned golden brown and
the egg/milk mixture has set (about 30 to 40 mins). Can be eaten hot or
cold (probably better cold). A delicious variant, although somewhat messy
to prepare, is to thickly spread lemon curd on the bread at stage 2 before
hacking the crusts, etc.  If you *do* give this version a go, you're better
off leaving it to go cold, preferably for at least a day, because the lemon
taste becomes stronger with the passage of time. Strange, but true.
HZ225WU@UNIDUI.UNI-DUISBURG.DE
(MICAELA PANTKE)
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