Caramel Custard

Ingredients

• one-half cup sugar
• two teaspoons water
• one quart hot milk
• beat six eggs
• one teaspoon vanilla
• one-half cup sugar for sauce
• one-half cup water for sauce

Method

1. 1

   Melt sugar in a pan until brown, then add water and hot milk.

2. 2

   Beat eggs with salt and vanilla, stir into milk mixture, and pour into a buttered mold.

3. 3

   Bake in a pan of hot water for thirty minutes.

4. 4

   Serve cold with a sauce made from melted sugar and water.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fish, Flesh and Fowl: A Cook Book of Valuable Recipes, All of which Have ... (1894) by Ladies of State Street Parish, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Caramel Custard. One-half cup sugar, put in a pan and stir till it melts and is brown, then add two tea- spoons water and one quart hot milk; beat six eggs with a little salt, one teaspoon vanilla

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