Frank Keenan

CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING
2 cups stale bread crumbs 4 cups scalded milk 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 2/3 cup sugar 2 eggs 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla Soak bread in milk thirty minutes; melt chocolate in saucepan placed over hot water, add one-half sugar and enough milk taken from bread and milk to make of consistency to pour; add to mixture with remaining sugar, salt, vanilla and eggs slightly beaten; turn into buttered pudding dish and bake one hour in a moderate oven. Serve with hard or cream sauce.
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