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Burnt Custard

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 4

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Burnt Custard. A bowl of boiled custard is said to be burnt when, in- stead of being garnished with syllabub, the whites of eggs left out in making it are whipped up until they stand alone, sweetened with a table-spoonful of powdered sugar VIRGINIA COOKERY-BOOK. 215 allowed to each e^^ and a flavoring of vanilla or lemon- juice

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