Queen Pudding

Ingredients

  • 1 cupful white sugar
  • 2 cupfuls bread-crumbs
  • butter, size of an egg
  • 1 quart milk
  • 4 eggs, yolks only
  • 1/2 cupful jelly or jam
  • 1 teaspoonful lemon extract

Directions

Cream the butter and sugar, add the beaten yolks, stir thoroughly, soak the bread-crumbs in the milk, stir all together and flavor. Bake in a buttered pudding dish for one hour. When done spread the top with jelly or jam. Turn over this a meringue made of the beaten whites well sweetened and flavored with lemon. Return to the oven and brown slightly. Peach marmalade may be substituted for jelly.