This Historic Recipe comes to us from the cook book “Favourite Recipes from Laurel Lea” – Laurel Lea Presbyterian Church – Sarnia, Ontario - Old Baked Bread Pudding by Stella Grantham.
Stella Antosiak was born in Fort William, Ontario to the first marriage of Michael Antosiak. Both of her parents were born in Ukrainia (Ukraine).
Only two of the children from the Antosiak family came to Sarnia from the Thunder Bay area – Stella and her brother Anthony who married Margaret Stott.
Stella first married Wilfred Henry William Wastell, later married Joseph Grantham and had three children; two sons and one daughter.
Stella passed away on 11 December 1982 and was laid to rest at Lakeview Cemetery with her husband Joe who predeceased her on 10 April 1968.
Ingredients
1lb bread scraps (day old, not dry)
¼ lb sugar
¼ lb currants or sultanas
1 oz finely chopped suet or dripping
1 egg
Nutmeg or cinnamon to salt
Pinch of salt
Instructions
Cut bread into small pieces and put into a bowl with enough cold water to cover. Soak until soft. Press water away and beat bread finely with fork. Bread egg into basin and beat well, then add to bread with fruit sugar, spice, salt. Mix well and put into a well greased pit dish or cake pan. Bake 1 hour at 30 degrees. Grated orange may be used for variety.
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