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Chestnut Pudding

Two ounces raw beef marrow, half ounce remnants cakes or bread crumbs, half ounce butter, one ounce fine sugar, two whole raw eggs, three tablespoons crushed candied marrons (chestnuts), one tablespoon corn flour, two tablespoons picked dried currants and one good tablespoon Swiss kirschwasser. Pound the marrons to a paste in a mortar, then pass through a sieve into a bowl. Add the butter, briskly stir for six minutes; add the sugar and eggs, one by one; rapidly stir again for five minutes, or until of a creamy consistency. Then add all the other ingredients; thoroughly mix for one minute. Lightly butter six individual pudding moulds. Fill them up with the preparation. Place the moulds in a pastry tin, pour hot water into the tin to half the height of the moulds. Set the tin in a hot oven to steam for twenty minutes. Remove from the oven, unmould on a hot dish and serve with a pineapple sauce separately.