Queen Mab’s Pudding. Cold.
Ingredients: 1 pt. of new milk, ½ pt. of cream (or 1½ pts. all cream and no milk), the rind of a small lemon, 2 or 3 bitter almonds, or some stick vanilla, a few grains of salt, ½ oz. of isinglass (in hot weather 1 oz.), ½ oz. of sugar in lumps, the yolks of 6 eggs, 2 ozs. of dried cherries, 1½ ozs. candied citron, 1 oz. of blanched pistachio nuts. If you like sultanas instead of cherries in the pudding you must steain them 20 minutes in an earthen colander placed over a saucepan in which the water is boiling, and covered with the lid.
Throw into 1 pt. of new milk the rind of a small lemon, grated, 2, or even 3, bitter almonds, blanched and bruised, or if prefered some pounded vanilla. Heat it slowly by the side of the fire, and keep it at boiling point till well flavoured, then add a grain or so of salt, and ½ oz. of isinglass. When this last has dissolved, strain the mixture through a tammy cloth and