This section is from the book "Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea.
1 heaping cup finest bread-crumbs.
1 table-spoonful corn starch wet with cold water.
1 cocoanut, pared and grated.
1/2 cup butter.
1 cup powdered sugar,
2 cups milk. 6 eggs.
Nutmeg and rose-water to taste.
Soak the crumbs in the milk; rub the butter and sugar to a cream, and put with the beaten yolks. Beat up this mixture with the soaked crumbs; stir in the corn-starch; then the whisked whites, flavoring, and, at the last, the grated cocoanut. Beat hard one minute; pour into a buttered pudding-dish - the same in which it is to be served - and bake in a moderate oven three-quarters of an hour.
Eat very cold, with powdered sugar on top.
 
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