MARLBOROUGH PIE

6 good-sized apples
1 oz. of butter
3 eggs
the juice and rind of 1 lemon
1 teacupful of milk
sugar to taste
and some paste for crust.

Steam or bake the apples till tender and press them through a sieve while hot, add the butter, and let the mixture cool; beat the yolks of the eggs, add to them the milk, sugar, lemon juice and rind, and add all these to the apples and butter; line a dish with paste, fill it with the above mixture, and bake the pie for 1/2 hour in a quick oven; whip the whites of the eggs stiff, adding a little castor sugar, heap the froth over the pie, and let it set in the oven.