Boiled Apple Pudding

Original Recipe

Take three eggs, three apples, a quarter of a pound of bread crumbs, one lemon, three ounces of sugar, three ounces of currants, half a wine-glassful of wine, nutmeg, butter and sugar for sauce. Pare, core and mince the apples and mix with the bread crumbs, nutmeg, grated sugar, currants; the juice of the lemon and half the rind grated. Beat the eggs well, moisten the mixture with these and beat all together, adding the wine last; put the pudding in a buttered mold, tie it down with a cloth; boil one hour and a half and serve with sweet sauce.

Ingredients

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  • 3 eggs
  • 3 apples
  • 1 quarter of a pound of bread crumbs
  • 1 lemon
  • 3 ounces of sugar
  • 3 ounces of currants
  • 10 the mixture with these and beat all together
  • 1 buttered mold
  • 1 cloth
  • 1 hour and a half and serve with sweet sauce

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Take three eggs, three apples, a quarter of a pound of bread crumbs, one lemon, three ounces of sugar, three ounces of currants, half a wine-glassful of wine, nutmeg, butter and sugar for sauce.

  2. 2

    Pare, core and mince the apples and mix with the bread crumbs, nutmeg, grated sugar, currants; the juice of the lemon and half the rind grated.

  3. 3

    Beat the eggs well, moisten the mixture with these and beat all together, adding the wine last; put the pudding in a buttered mold, tie it down with a cloth; boil one hour and a half and serve with sweet sauce.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)