This section is from the book "The Modern Housewife Or Menagere", by Alexis Soyer. Also available from Amazon: The Modern Housewife Or Menagere.
Boil one pint of milk, with a piece of lemon-peel and a little cinnamon ; then add two ounces of tapioca; reduce to half; add two eggs, and one ounce of butter ; pour these in a buttered mould, and steam half an hour.
 
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