Old Fashioned Bread Pudding - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pt. bread crumbs
1 qt. sweet milk
1 c. sugar
4 eggs
1 c. jelly (any flavor, optional)
2 heaping Tbsp. butter
juice and rind of 1 lemon (or orange)

Preparation

Soak bread crumbs in milk for 1/2 hour.
Beat sugar and egg yolks together until light in color.
Add to crumb mixture and mix well.
Stir in lemon juice and grated rind and butter. Pour
into greased
pudding
dish and bake until light brown. Whip
egg whites
until
frothy;
add
4 tablespoons powdered sugar
and beat
until very stiff.
When pudding is done, top with
jelly, then egg whites.
Return to oven and brown. Serve warm.