This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Individual; in custard cups.
Take as many slices of cake as will fill a two-quart pan.
1/2 cup citron shred fine.
8 eggs.
1/2 cup currant jelly.
Spread the slices of cake one side with butter the other with jelly, very thinly; put three or four together cut in dice, mix the shred citron with the cake and fill custard cups or deep muffin pans. Mix the eggs and milk together - no sugar needed - and pour over the cake, press down with a teaspoon after it has soaked a short time, then steam about half an hour.
Turn the puddings out in saucers to serve, and there ought to be either a spoonful of whipped cream or egg meringue on top and the meringue browned with a red hot shovel held over it.
 
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