Potato Pudding

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb mashed potatoes
• 2 oz butter
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 pint milk
• 3 tablespoonful sherry
• 1/4 saltspoonful salt
• the juice and rind of 1 small lemon
• 2 oz sugar

Instructions

1. Boil sufficient potatoes to make 1/2 lb. when mashed;
2. add to these the butter, eggs, milk, sherry, lemon-juice, and sugar; mince the lemon-peel very finely, and beat all the ingredients well together.
3. Put the pudding into a buttered pie-dish, and bake for rather more than 1/2 hour.
4. To enrich it, add a few pounded almonds, and increase the quantity of eggs and butter.