This section is from the book "Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea.
2 cupfuls fine bread-crumbs - stale and dry.
1 quart of milk.
6 eggs - whites and yolks beaten separately.
1 table-spoonful rice flour.
1 teaspoonful salt, and 1/2 teaspoonful soda.
Flavor to taste.
Soak the bread-crumbs in the milk; put into a farina-kettle and heat almost to a boil. Stir in the rice-flour wet with cold milk ; cook one minute; turn into a basin and beat hard several minutes. When almost cold, add the yolks of the eggs, the soda (dissolved in hot water) and the flavoring; finally, the whipped whites, mixing them in swiftly and thoroughly. Boil in a greased mould an hour and a half. Turn out, and eat hot with sweet sauce.
 
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