Take nine large pippin apples; pare and core them whole. Set them
in the bottom of a large deep dish, and pour round them a very
little water, just enough to keep them from burning. Put them into
an oven, and let them bake about half an hour. In the mean time,
mix three table-spoonfuls of flour with a quart of milk, a quarter
of a pound of brown sugar, and a tea-spoonful of mixed spice. Beat
seven eggs very light, and stir them gradually into the milk. Then
take out the dish of apples, (which by this time should be half
baked,) and fill up the holes from whence you extracted the cores,
with brown sugar; pressing down into each a slice of fresh lemon.
Pour the batter round the apples; put the dish again into the
oven, and let it bake another half hour; but not long enough for
the apples to fall to pieces; as they should, when done, be soft
throughout, but quite whole. Send it to table warm.
This is sometimes called a _Bird's Nest Pudding_.
It will be much improved by previously boiling in the milk a small
handful of peach leaves. Let it get cold before you stir in the
eggs.