A Burnt Cream

• cream
• eggs
• flour
• sugar
• cinnamon
• orange

Boil a mutchkin (pint) of cream and thicken it with the yolks of eight eggs and a spoonful of flour; boil cinnamon and the rind of an orange in the cream; take care it is not curdled, sweeten it to your taste; take a quarter-pound of loaf sugar in a stew-pan and pour over it a gill of water; let it boil till it ropes and don’t stir it till you take it off; then by degrees strew it over your ash