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Date Pudding

Carefully stone a half pound dates, finely chop with four ounces of fresh beef marrow and place in a bowl, add four ounces sugar, four ounces fresh bread crumbs, two saltspoons salt, a saltspoon grated nutmeg, half gill cold milk, the yolks of three eggs with a teaspoon vanilla essence, and briskly mix for five minutes. Beat up the whites of the three eggs to a froth and gradually add to the bowl, lightly mixing while adding it. Lightly butter and sugar a quart pudding mould, drop in the preparation, lay in a saucepan, and pour hot water up to half the height of the mould. Set in the oven for one hour and twenty-five minutes, remove, unmould on a dish, pour a Sabayon sauce over and serve.