671. Pudding Cesarino

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

  • About

I consider this Cesarino a good boy, and I shall sell his pudding to you under the same strange name it bore when I bought it from a young and rather lovely woman, upright and religious, the sort who, without intending to, can by her flirtatious nature compromise anyone in her immediate vicinity.

Ingredients

  • 200 grams (about 7 ounces) of extra fine crustless bread
  • 250 grams (about

Method

Cut the crustless bread into thin slices, and soak it in the milk. Meanwhile, clean the sultanas, remove the seeds from the Malaga raisins and prepare the mold for cooking. Use a copper mold intended for puddings. Put about 100 grams (about 3-½ ounces) of the sugar into a saucepan and, once it has turned nut brown, pour it into the mold, coating it thoroughly. After the mold has cooled, grease