Meringue Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 pint stale bread crumbs
  
• 1 quart of milk
• 1 cup of sugar
• 3 eggs (leave one white out for the meringue)
• Grated rind of 1 lemon
• Preserves &

Directions

Pudding

1. Mix together 1 pint of stale bread crumbs, 1 quart of milk, 1/2 cup of sugar, 3 eggs with one white left out for meringue, and the grated rind of 1 lemon for flavor.
2. Bake the pudding until completely done.
3. To check, stick the handle of a teaspoon in the pudding.  The pudding will be completely cooked if you pull out the teaspoon and nothing is on it.
4. Cover the pudding with your choice of preserves.

Meringue

1. Whip together the 1 egg white and 1/2 cup of sugar.
2. Spread meringue on top of the preserves on the pudding.
3. Put in the oven until it is lightly browned.

Source —Cooking in Old Creole Days

Prepared by Kirsten Smith

Louisiana Anthology

July 12, 2017