Bread & Butter Pudding

Ingredients:

1 small baker's stale loaf.
Butter.
3 eggs.
1/2 cup sugar.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
1 quart milk.

Directions:

Remove end crusts from bread, cut loaf in one-half inch slices,
spread each slice generously with butter; arrange in buttered pudding-dish, buttered side down.
Beat eggs slightly, add sugar, salt, and milk; strain, and pour over bread; let stand thirty minutes.
Bake one hour in slow oven, covering the first half-hour of baking. The top of pudding should be well browned.
Serve with Hard or Creamy Sauce.
Three-fourths cup raisins, parboiled in boiling water to cover and seeded, may be sprinkled between layers of bread.