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A Marlborough pudding.

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  1. Pare, core and quarter six large ripe pippin apples. Stew them in
    half a pint of water. When they are soft but not broken, take them
    out, drain them through a sieve, and mash them to a paste with the
    back of a spoon. Mix with them six large table-spoonfuls of sugar
    and a quarter of a pound of butter, and set them away to get cold.
    Grate two milk biscuits or email sponge cakes, or an equal
    quantity of stale bread, and grate also the yellow peel, and
    squeeze the juice of a large lemon. Beat six eggs light, and when
    the apple is cold stir them gradually into it, adding the grated
    biscuit and the lemon. Stir in a wine glass of rose water and a
    grated nutmeg. Put the mixture into a buttered dish or dishes; lay
    round the edge a border of puff paste, and bake it three quarters
    of art hour. When cold, grate white sugar over the top, and
    ornament it with slips of citron handsomely arranged.

  2. Anne said:

    Pare, core and quarter six large ripe pippin apples. Stew them in
    half a pint of water. When they are soft but not broken, take them
    out, drain them through a sieve, and mash them to a paste with the
    back of a spoon. Mix with them six large table-spoonfuls of sugar
    and a quarter of a pound of butter, and set them away to get cold.
    Grate two milk biscuits or email sponge cakes,

    What's are "email sponge cakes"??

    --Bryan

  3. BOBOBOnoBO® said:
    Anne said:

    Grate two milk biscuits or email sponge cakes,

    What's are "email sponge cakes"??

    I found that curious also. It looks like the recipes were scanned from
    historic documents. Then OCRed and spellchecked with little human
    intervention. "s" and "e" look very similar to an OCR program. "i" and
    "l" also look similar, especially when the original printing has broken
    type. So the OCR result might have been "emall" or "smail", which is
    just a short step to "email" for a spellchecker. Probably, the word
    should just be "small" instead of "email".

    Fred "Help, I'm drowning in quote marks" A.

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