Boiled Bread Pudding

Two cupfuls of bread-crumbs. One cupful of molasses. One cupful of raisins. One cupful of milk. Two eggs.

Butter or suet the size of an egg. One tea-spoonful of soda. One tea-spoonful of cinnamon. One tea-spoonful of cloves. One tea-spoonful of allspice. One-half tea-spoonful of nutmeg. One-half tea-spoonful of salt.

Soak the bread-crumbs in the milk for fifteen minutes; then mash them fine, add the molasses, warmed, and the soda, dissolved in a table-spoonful of cold water. Next put in the spice, salt, seeded raisins, butter (if suet is used, chop it very fine before adding it), and lastly the beaten eggs. Boil in a bag or a mould for two hours, and serve with hard sauce.