Rich Bread and Butter Pudding

• new milk, 1 pint
• rind of small lemon, and 6 bitter almonds bruised (or ½ drachm of cinnamon

Give a good flavour of lemon-rind and bitter almonds, or of cinnamon, if preferred, to a pint of new milk, and when it has simmered a sufficient time for this, strain and mix it with a quarter of a pint