Bottle Custard

Ingredients

• i pint Milk
• 3 Eggs
• sweeten to taste
• flavour

Method

1. 1

   Put the milk in a stewpan, with the sugar and any flavouring, to get hot.

2. 2

   Stir the yolks and whites of the eggs in a basin to thoroughly mix them, and pour the hot milk on, stirring all the time.

3. 3

   Now strain it back into the stewpan to remove the tread of the egg and cook the custard well, constantly stirring until it thickens.

4. 4

   Cook it over a very little gas and be careful it does not reach boiling point or the eggs will curdle.

5. 5

   Pour into a jug to cool, and when cold fill the custard cups.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Gas cookery (1885) by Helen Edden, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Botlefc Custarfc. Ingredients. — i pint Milk, 3 Eggs, sweeten to taste and flavour

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