BIRD'S NEST PUDDING

8 or 10 nice apples
Batch of custard

If you wish to make what is called
'bird's nest pudding', prepare your
custard. Take eight or ten pleasant
apples, pare them, and dig out the
core, but leave them whole. Set them
in a pudding dish, pour your custard
over them, and bake about thirty minutes.

From The American Frugal Housewife by
Mrs. Lydia Child, 1833

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CHEAP CUSTARD

1 qt milk, boiling
3 tbs. rice, ground or boiled
3 tbs. milk, cold
1 egg
peach leaves, cinnamon, cloves, or other spices
as desired

One quart of milk, boiled. When boiling,
add three table spoonfuls of ground
rice, or rice that is boiled, mixed
smooth and fine in cold milk, and one
egg, beaten. Give it one boil up, and
sweeten to your taste. Peach leaves or
any spice you please, boiled in the milk.

From The American Frugal Housewife by Mrs. Lydia Child, 1833