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Chocolate Bread Pudding

A historical dessert recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups Stale Bread Crumbs
  • 4 cups Scalded Milk
  • 2 squares Chocolate
  • ⅔ cup Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • ¼ teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    Serve with Hard or Cream Sauce I.

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Where this recipe comes from

Chocolate Bread Pudding, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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Historical measurements, equipment, temperatures and terminology may differ from modern kitchen practice.