Bird's Nest Or Transparent Pudding Recipe

Pare and halve tart mellow apples, scoop out the cores. Put a little

flour and water in the hollow of each apple, so as to form a thick

paste--then stick three or four Zante currants in each one. Butter and

line a pudding dish with pastry, put on a rim of puff paste, and lay in

the apples, with the hollow side up. Have just enough apples to cover

the bottom of the dish, and stick citron, cut in very long narrow

strips, round the apples. Stir to a cream half a pound each of butter

and fine white sugar--beat the yelks and whites separately, of eight

eggs, to a froth, and mix them with the butter and sugar. Flavor it with

nutmeg, and set it on a few coals--stir it constantly till quite

hot--take it from the fire, stir it till nearly cold, then turn it over

the apples, and bake it directly.

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