The Epicure's Almanac or Diary of Good Living
August 31st : REAL CABINET PUDDING
Break four sponge cakes into small pieces, add three or four bunches of raisins cut and stoned, a table-spoonful of candied citron, two ounces of ratafia cakes, beat up five eggs with two glasses of brown sherry, and one of brandy, add enough fine Lisbon sugar to sweeten it; boil a pint of milk, with half a dozen cloves and a quarter of a stick of cinnamon ; strain and add the milk to the above. See that the mould be well buttered, as before directed, and boil for the same time.