EVE'S PUDDING
If you'll have good pudding, pray mind what you're taught,
Take two-penn'orth eggs, when there's twelve for a groat,
Take the same fruit, 'tis said Eve did once cozen,
When pared and well chopped, least halt dozen,
Six ounces bread (give a beggar the crust)
And grate in the crumb as small as the dust;
Six ounces of currants, well cleaned from the dirt,
Lest they break your teeth, and spoil all your sport,
The rind of a lemon grated quite thin,
Will it no harm if the whole you put in ;
Six ounces sugar will not make it too sweet,
Some nutmeg and salt will make it complete;
Now boil it three hours without hurry or flutter.
And then serve it up with some good melted butter.