Cornflour Meringue

Ingredients

• 1 table-spoonful of Cornflour
• lqt. of boiling milk
• the yolks of four eggs
• 2 table-spoonfuls of powdered white sugar
• 1 table-spoonful of jam or jelly

Method

1. 1

   Blend 1 tablespoonful of Cornflour to a smooth paste with a little cold milk.

2. 2

   Pour on to it, stirring all the time, 1 quart of boiling milk; put it into a saucepan, let it boil for a quarter of an hour, and keep stirring to prevent its burning.

3. 3

   Take it from the fire, and beat up the yolks of four eggs with 2 tablespoons of powdered white sugar and a few drops of essence of lemon or vanilla; stir this by degrees into the boiled Cornflour and milk.

4. 4

   Then butter a pudding-dish, pour all into it, and bake for a quarter of an hour.

5. 5

   Meantime, beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff froth with 1 tablespoon of jam or jelly added by degrees.

6. 6

   Take the pudding from the oven at the end of a quarter of an hour, heap this stiff froth lightly on it all over, put it back in the oven, and let it brown very slightly.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 489. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cornflour Meringue. — Blend 1 table-spoonful of Cornflour to a smooth paste with a little cold milk. Pour on to it, stirring all the time, lqt. of boiling milk ; put it into a saucepan, let it boil for a-quarter-of-an-hour, and keep stirring to prevent its burning. Take it from the fire, and beat up the yolks of four eggs with 2 table-spoonfuls of powdered white sugar and a few drops of essence of lemon or vanilla ; stir this by degrees into the boiled Cornflour and milk, which will have cooled a little while the eggs and sugar were being beaten. Then butter a pudding'-dish, pour all into it, and bake for a-quarter-of- an-hour. Meantime, beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff froth with 1 table-spoonful of jam or jelly

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