Transparent Pudding

Ingredients

• 8 eggs
• 1/2 pound sugar
• 1/2 pound fresh butter
• 1/2 nutmeg
• puff paste

Instructions

1. Beat eight eggs very light.
2. Add half a pound of pounded sugar, the same of fresh butter melted, and half a nutmeg grated.
3. Set it on a stove and keep stirring till it is as thick as buttered eggs.
4. Put a puff paste in a shallow dish, pour in the ingredients, and bake it half an hour in a moderate oven.
5. Sift sugar over it, and serve it up hot.