Title: Bird's-Nest Pudding
Categories: Pudding Fruit Dessert
Yield: 4 Servings

		Tart apples, 6 (about 2
		Pounds)
		Brown sugar, 1 cup
		Ground nutmeg, 1/2 tsp.
		Eggs, 3
1	c	Milk
1	ts	Maple flavoring
1	c	Flour
1	ts	Cream of tartar
1/2	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Salt
1/2	c	Powdered sugar
1	pt	Heavy cream

Butter a 2 quart baking dish. Peel and core the apples and place them in the dish. Fill the holes with brown sugar, pressing slightly, and sprinkle half the nutmeg on top. Place in preheated 350 degree oven to start baking while you prepare the batter.

Seperate the eggs, putting yolks in a bowl and whites on a platter. Beat whites with a fork or whisk until they no longer slip from the tilted platter. Beat the yolks until they change color; stir in milk, and maple flavoring. In a small bowl mix the flour, cream of tartar, baking powder, salt and any remaining brown sugar. Stir this mixture quickly into the liquid. Fold the egg whites into this thin batter.

Pour the batter evenly over and around the partly cooked apples and return dish to the oven, baking it until the crust has browned, another 45 minutes to 1 hour.

While the pudding bakes, stir the powdered sugar and remaining nutmeg into a pitcher of heavy cream. Take the finished pudding directly to the table before it "falls", and turn each serving onto a plate so the apple is "nested in the fluffy crust." Pass the pitcher of sweetened cream.

From: The Little House Cookbook From: Pat Stockett Date: 01-30-98 (04:42) The Once And Future Legend (1) Cooking

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