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Muffins, Pudding Of

Beat six eggs for ten minutes, lay three muffins and two crumpets into a bowl, and pour over them three breakfast-capfuls of boiling milk, flavoured with lemon-peel, and sweetened with loaf sugar. Mix when cold, and add a glassful of brandy, two ounces of sweet almonds, blanched and chopped small, and the beaten eggs; half a pound of stoned muscatels, or dried cherries, may be added, and the whole should be well stirred before being put into the buttered basin for boiling, or into a dish lined with puff-paste, if the pudding is preferred baked. Time one hour to bake or boil. Sufficient for five or six persons. Probable cost, 2s., exclusive of brandy.