APPLE PUDDING (Nottingham)

6 baking apples
2 oz. of sugar
1 heaped up teaspoonful of ground cinnamon
3/4 pint of milk
3 eggs
6 oz. of wholemeal flour
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.