Wash half a pint of rice, and boil it till soft and dry. Pare,
core, and cut up six large juicy apples, and stew them in as
little water as possible. When they are quite, tender, take them
out, and mash them with six table-spoonfuls of brown sugar. When
the apples and rice are both cold, mix them together. Have ready
five eggs beaten very light, and add them gradually to the other
ingredients, with five or six drops of essence of lemon, and a
grated nutmeg. Or you may substitute for the essence, the grated
peel and the juice of one large lemon. Beat the whole very hard
after it is all mixed; tie it tightly in a cloth, (leaving but a
very small space for it to swell,) and stopping up the tying place
with a lump of flour moistened to paste with water. Put it into a
pot of boiling water, and boil it fast for half an hour. Send it
to table hot, and eat it with sweetened cream, or with beaten
butter and sugar.