Rich Sweet Apple Pudding

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb bread crumbs
• 1/2 lb suet
• 1/2 lb currants
• 1/2 lb apples
• 1/2 lb moist sugar
• 6 eggs
• 12 sweet almonds
• 1/2 saltspoonful grated nutmeg
• 1 wineglassful brandy

Instructions

1. Chop the suet very fine;
2. wash the currants, dry them, and pick away the stalks and pieces of grit; pare, core, and chop the apple, and grate the bread into fine crumbs, and mince the almonds.
3. Mix all these ingredients together, adding the sugar and nutmeg;
4. beat up the eggs, omitting the whites of three;
5. stir these to the pudding, and when all is well mixed, add the brandy, and put the pudding into a buttered mould;
6. tie down with a cloth, put it into boiling water, and let it boil for 3 hours.