Apple Custard

Ingredients

• 12 pippins (apples)
• 1 pound loaf sugar
• 1 pint water
• 12 cloves
• 1 quart rich boiled custard

Instructions

1. Pare and core twelve pippins and slice them tolerably thick.
2. Put a pound of loaf sugar in a stew pan with a pint of water and twelve cloves; boil and skim it.
3. Put in the apples and stew them till clear, and but little of the syrup remains.
4. Lay them in a deep dish and take out the cloves.
5. When the apples are cold, pour in a quart of rich boiled custard.
6. Set it in water and make it boil till the custard is set. Take care the water does not get into it.