Rice Pudding

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound rice
• milk
• 3/4 pound sugar
• 3/4 pound butter
• 1/2 nutmeg
• 6 eggs
• 1 gill wine
• lemon peel
• paste

Instructions

1. Boil half a pound of rice in milk until it is quite tender.
2. Beat it well with a wooden spoon to mash the grains.
3. Add three quarters of a pound of sugar, and the same of melted butter; half a nutmeg; six eggs; a gill of wine; and some grated lemon peel.
4. Put a paste in the dish, and bake it.
5. For change, it may be boiled, and eaten with butter, sugar, and wine.