This section is from the book "Cookery Reformed: Or The Lady's Assistant", by P. Davey and B. Law.
Grate the crumb of a halfpenny roll, and mix it with half a pint of milk or cream. Then add twelve eggs, with as much juice of tansey and spin-age mixt together, as will make the whole of a fine green. Throw in some sugar, a small nutmeg grated, and a little salt, with two or three spoon-fuls of rose-water; stir them all together in a sauce-pan over the fire, till the mixture is as thick as hasty-pudding. Then butter a stew-pan and pour it in, and butter a dish to lay over it. When one side is enough, turn it on the dish, and flip the other side into the pan. When it is done, throw sugar all over it, and garnish with orange.
 
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