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Boiled Custard

A historical recipe from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers, by Lea, Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott).

A historical recipe

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers, by Lea, Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott). Project Gutenberg eBook #9101.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

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From Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers, by Lea, Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #9101 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9101). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Beat an egg with a heaped tea-spoonful of sugar;
  2. stir it into a tea-cupful of boiling milk, and stir till it is thick;
  3. pour it in a bowl on a slice of toast cut up, and grate a little nutmeg over.