Coffee or Chocolate Custard

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 1 pint strong coffee or chocolate
• 0.5 pint boiling milk
• 2 ozs. sugar

Method

1. 1

   Make some very strong coffee or chocolate.

2. 2

   Beat the eggs well and put in a pan with the boiling milk, coffee and sugar.

3. 3

   Mix well and pass through a sieve, and fill cups with it, which place in a stewpan on the fire which contains 1 inch of water.

4. 4

   Leave them till set, or put into a pudding dish and bake very slowly for 2 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Samaritan cookery book (1903) by E. P. Watson, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COFFEE OR CHOCOLATE CUSTARD. 4 eggs. I i pint strong coffee or chocolate. £ pint boiling milk. | 2 ozs. sugar

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