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AUSTRALIAN QUEEN OF PUDDINGS
 
4 slices day old bread
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup raisins
4 eggs
1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar
2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup strawberry or raspberry jam

Remove crusts from bread, spread with butter and sprinkle with
plenty of cinnamon, cut into quarters.  Arrange bread in greased
shallow baking dish.  Sprinkle with raisins.  Separate eggs, beat
yolks, milk, half the sugar and vanilla together until blended but
not frothy.  Pour over bread.  Put baking dish into larger pan with
sufficient water to come 1 inch up the sides, bake in very moderate
oven for 45 minutes or until set, when a knife blade inserted 1
inch from the edge comes out cleanly.  Beat egg whites until foamy,
add remaining sugar, a little at a time, until stiff peaks form.
Heat jam in small saucepan, pour over bread pudding, spread with
meringue.  Increase heat to moderately hot, return pudding to oven,
bake for 5 to 8 minutes longer, until meringue is set and golden.

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