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Cheese Custard

From Meat substitutes, 1907

The custard should reach the top of the bread.

Presented as published in 1907. 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 Meat substitutes (1907) by Isabel Goodhue, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cheese Custard Take a round loaf of baker's bread ; cut in slices about one'half inch thick; remove any hard or very brown crust and butter well. Line the sides of a deep buttered baking dish with six of the slices and lay the seventh in the bottom. Grate fine one-fourth pound of good cheese. Melt a small piece of butter and stir into one and one' half pints of good milk ; dissolve two tablespoonfuls of flour in a gill of cold milk, add it to the boiled milk and let it cool. Add the cheese, salt, pepper and four well beaten eggs
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