Homemade Coconut Pudding

Ingredients

  • 1 coconut grated
  • 1 heaping cupful of stale bread-crumbs, omitting the brown part of the crust
  • 1 pint of milk
  • 1 cupful granulated sugar
  • 4 eggs, reserving 2 whites
  • 1/2 teaspoonful salt
  • 1 tablespoonful rose water
  • Butter size of an egg
  • 1/4 grated nutmeg
  • Soak the crumbs in the milk, cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs, milk, crumbs and cocoanut. Bake slowly in a buttered dish for one hour. Beat the two reserved whites very stiff with two tablespoonfuls powdered sugar. Spread over the pudding when taken from the oven and return for a few moments to brown slightly. Serve cold without sauce.