Prune Pudding

PRUNE PUDDING

1 pt. milk
4 tall spoons sugar
1 1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 lemon
1 cup prunes
3 eggs

Grate lemon and heat half the milk with the grated rind
coming to a scald. Mix the rest of the milk with flour, cook
until thickened and pour into that the lemon, then add sugar.
Take from the fire, and add well beaten yolks of eggs. Let
stand and cool. Have your prunes well cooked and mash
through a colander. Add the juice. Have the whites of the
eggs well beaten. Mix prunes with the sauce and fold in the
whites of the eggs. Put in baking dish, cook 15 minutes.
Serve with hard sauce.