Two teaspoonfuls of butter.
One tablespoonful of salt.
Butter a pudding-dish and cover the bottom with crumbs. Lay on these a thick layer of minced apple, sprinkled lightly with salt and spices—more heavily with sugar. Stick bits of butter over all. Then more crumbs, going on in this order until all the ingredients are used up. The top layer should be crumbs. Cover closely, and bake half an hour. Remove the cover and set on the upper grating of the oven until nicely browned. Send to table in the dish in which it was baked.
Sauce for the Above.
Two cupfuls of powdered sugar.
Two tablespoonfuls of butter.
Half teaspoonful of mace or nutmeg.
Juice (strained) of a lemon.
Two tablespoonfuls of boiling water.
Melt the butter with the hot water and beat in, with egg whisk or “Dover,” the sugar, a little at a time, until the sauce is like a cream. Add lemon juice and nutmeg, mould into a mound on a glass dish, or a deep plate, and set in a cold place until it is firm. This is a good “hard sauce” for any hot pudding.