For a home luncheon, dinner, or Sunday evening supper, a bread pudding of some kind makes a tasty dessert which is both economical and easy to make. A chocolate bread pudding for an average family is made as follows.
Soak two cupfuls of stale bread crumbs in four cupfuls of scalded milk for thirty minutes. Melt two squares of chocolate in a double boiler; add one-third cupful of sugar and enough milk taken from the bread and milk to make it thin enough to pour. Add the chocolate mixture to the bread and milk, together with one-third cupful of sugar, one quarter teaspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of vanilla flavoring, and two eggs slightly beaten. Turn into a buttered dish and bake for an hour in a moderate oven. Serve with whipped cream or with any other sauce you prefer.