Instructions: Take 12 spoons of stewed apples, 12 of wine, 12 of sugar, 12 of melted butter, and 12 of beaten eggs, a little cream, spice to your taste; lay in paste No. 3, in a deep dish; bake one hour and a quarter.

Modern Adaptation:
Stew apples and push through a fine sieve to puree. Mix together 3/4 cup of apple puree, 3/4 cup of white sugar, 3/4 cup of sherry, 6 tablespoons of melted butter (cut down from original recipe) 4 well beaten eggs, 1/2 cup heavy cream, juice of one lemon & 2 teaspoons of grated nutmeg (or to taste). Pour into pie crust and bake at 350 about one hour or until set (will look similar to a pumpkin pie.) Cool before serving.

The recent airings of "Al Rokers New England Thanksgiving" on the recipes used on the show. Most requested of all was the recipe for Marlborough Pudding, which is reproduced here for your own enjoyment and taken from Amelia Simmons American Cookery (1796). The modern Education and Public Programs. The "spice to your taste" in this case is most often nutmeg and lemon. The "wine" used is sherry.

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