A Curd Pudding

Ingredients

• 2 quarts milk
• 1/2 pint white wine
• 6 ounces butter
• 1/2 pound loaf sugar
• 1/2 pint rice flour or beaten crackers
• 6 eggs
• 1/2 nutmeg, grated
• citron
• butter, melted
• sugar
• wine

Instructions

1. Put two quarts of milk on the fire; when it boils, pour in half a pint of white wine.
2. Strain the curd from the whey and pound it in a mortar with six ounces of butter, half a pound of loaf sugar, and half a pint of rice flour, or as much crackers beaten as fine as flour.
3. Add six eggs made light and half a grated nutmeg, and beat all well together.
4. Bake them in saucers in a moderate oven.
5. Turn them out carefully in your dish, stick thin slices of citron in them, and pour on rich melted butter with sugar and wine.