1 pint ripe or nearly ripe gooseberries.
6 or 8 slices toasted stale bread.
1 cup milk.
½ cup sugar.
1 tablespoonful butter, melted.
Stew the gooseberries ten minutes—very slowly, not to break them. Cut
your slices of bread to fit your pudding-dish, and toast to a light
brown on both sides. (Cut off all the crust before toasting.) Dip each
slice, while hot, in milk, and spread with the melted butter. Cover the
bottom of the dish with them; put next a layer of the gooseberries,
sprinkled thickly with sugar; more toast, more berries, and so on,
until the dish is full. Cover closely and steam in a moderate oven
twenty or twenty-five minutes. Turn out upon a hot dish and pour over
it a good pudding-sauce.
This is considered a wholesome breakfast dish, and is certainly good.
In this case omit the sauce, sift powdered sugar over the top, and eat
with the same.