Monkey Pudding

Ingredients

• Half a loaf of stale bread
• Milk (as much as you would put for a bread pudding)
• Cream
• Three heaping spoonfuls of brown sugar
• Two heaping spoonfuls of powdered cinnamon
• Few stoned raisins
• Stiff sugar
• Butter sauce
• Wine.

Directions

1. Take about half a loaf of stale bread. Let it soak in nice milk for several hours.
2. Add a little cream to it.
3. Put in three heaping spoonfuls of brown sugar, two heaping spoonfuls of powdered cinnamon, a few stoned raisins.
4. Cook in the oven with a slow fire until it looks like an old monkey.
5. Serve with a stiff sugar and butter sauce, flavored with a little wine.

Source - Cooking in Old Creole Days

Prepared by Morgan Payne

Louisiana Anthology

November 10, 2014