Orange Pudding

Ingredients

• 2 whole oranges
• 2 whole lemons
• 5 quarts water
• 1 pound loaf sugar
• 1 pint water
• 12 whole pippins
• puff paste

Instructions

1. Put two oranges and two lemons into five quarts of water, and boil them till the rinds are quite tender.
2. Take them out; and when cold, slice them thin and pick out the seeds.
3. Put a pound of loaf sugar into a pint of water;
4. when it boils, slice into it twelve pippins pared and cored.
5. Lay in the lemons and oranges, and stew them tender.
6. Cover the dish with puff paste, and lay the fruit in carefully, in alternate layers.
7. Pour on the syrup, put some slips of paste across, and bake it.