APPLE PUDDING (Nottingham)

VEGETARIAN APPLE COOKERY-APPLE PUDDING (Nottingham).
6 baking apples, 2 oz. of sugar, 1 heaped up teaspoonful of ground cinnamon, ¾ pint of milk, 3 eggs, 6 oz. of Allinson whole meal, and 1 oz. of butter. Core the apples, mix the sugar and cinnamon, and fill the hole where the core was with it; put the apples into a buttered pie-dish; make a batter of the milk, eggs, and meal, melt the butter and mix it into the batter; pour it over the apples, and bake the pudding for 2 hours in a moderate oven.