Mug O'Basic Bread Pudding

Like my post on Simmer Sardines on Toast, this recipe and others illustrate that "What is old is new again."

 

For some reason, I am always amazed to find that many of the latest food trends like Mug Recipes and Toast Toppings are not new. You can find, in several cookbooks over 100-years-old, precedent recipes for Mug Recipes (Tea Cup Bread Pudding) and Toast Toppings (Broiled Sardines on Toast) recipes.

Also, many older cookbooks refer the use of leftovers. A bread pudding often uses stale bread.

 

Mug O'Bread Pudding

(Adapted from: No. 198 Tea Cup Bread Pudding, A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes by Charles Elmé Francatelli)

 

eBook available on Project Gutenberg

 

 Ingredients:

 

1 Dab Olive oil

1 Slice multi-grain bread, torn into small pieces

1 Level TBspn Sugar

1 Dollop Milk

2 Shakes of Nutmeg, powdered

1 Egg

 

 

 Process:

 

Add olive oil to a mug.

Swirl the oil over the bottom and sides of mug.

Add bread pieces.

Add sugar, milk and nutmeg.

Stir ingredients thoroughly.

Add egg.

Stir thoroughly.

Place mug in microwave, use a saucer as a cover.

Microwave on high for 1 minute.

Dump mug contents onto a plate to eat or eat straight from the mug.