BREAD PUDDING.—Take light white bread and cut into slices. Put into a pudding shape a layer of any sort of pr serves, then a slice of bread and repeat until the mould is three parts full. Pour over all a pint of warm milk, in which four well-beaten eggs have been mixed; cover the mould with a piece of linen, and place it in a saucepan with a little boiling water, let it boil twenty minute., and serve with pudding sauce.

The What-not; or Ladies' Handybook
1861


We made this today and I got a thumbs up from all of the children.  I made it exactly as described in the recipe, except that I baked in in the oven in a water bath. I used white sandwich bread, which i normally wouldn't use but was limited by what Target had at the moment.  I think that it would be very simple to make it over a campfire.  We'll be trying it in the spring.