Apple Trifle

Ingredients

• 10 good-sized apples
• the rind of 1/2 lemon
• 6 oz pounded sugar
• 1/2 pint milk
• 1/2 pint cream
• 2 eggs
• whipped cream

Instructions

1. Peel, core, and cut the apples into thin slices, and put them into a saucepan with 2 tablespoonfuls of water, the sugar, and minced lemon-rind.
2. Boil all together until quite tender, and pulp the apples through a sieve;
3. if they should not be quite sweet enough, add a little more sugar, and put them at the bottom of the dish to form a thick layer.
4. Stir together the milk, cream, and eggs, with a little sugar, over the fire, and let the mixture thicken, but do not allow it to reach the boiling-point.
5. When thick, take it off the fire;
6. let it cool a little, then pour it over the apples.
7. Whip some cream with sugar, lemon-peel, &c., the same as for other trifles; heap it high over the custard, and the dish is ready for table.
8. It may be garnished as fancy dictates, with strips of bright apple jelly, slices of citron, &c.