1 quart milk—boiling-hot.
2 cups fine bread-crumbs (aërated bread is best).
3 eggs.
1 teaspoonful nutmeg.
1 tablespoonful butter—melted.
1 saltspoonful salt, and the same of soda, dissolved in hot water.
Soak the bread in the boiling milk ten minutes, in a covered bowl. Beat
to a smooth paste; add the whipped yolks, the butter, salt, soda, and
finally the whites, whipped stiff.