Cream Tarts with Preserved Ginger

Ingredients

• a cup and a half of boiling milk
• two-thirds of a cup of sugar
• two eggs
• two tablespoonfuls of flour
• a pinch of salt
• two tablespoonfuls of preserved or candied ginger

Method

1. 1

   Bake pie-crust until golden.

2. 2

   Mix boiling milk with sugar, beaten eggs, and flour.

3. 3

   Add salt and ginger after cooking for 15 minutes.

4. 4

   Pour into crusts.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cream-tarts, but preserved ginger can be. Bake in round patty-pans a plain pie- crust dough till a light golden brown. When cold pour into the pie-crust shells a cream made by stirring into a cup and 53 a half of boiling milk two-thirds of a cup of sugar, two eggs, beaten lightly, whites and yolks together, and two table- spoonfuls of flour, made smooth with cold milk; a pinch of salt should be added when the cream has cooked for fifteen minutes and two tablespoonfuls of preserved or candied ginger, chopped fine. Put on each tart a small round of the pastry. MARCH 22D "Mrs. Bates, let me propose your venturing on one of these eggs. An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome. Serle und^stands boiling an egg better than anybody . . . you need not be afraid, they are very smaU, you see — one of our small eggs will not hurt you.'' — ^Jane Austen ("Emma"). EVEN Mr. Woodhouse would have found eggs boiled in the following manner wholesome. "Serle" her- self could not have improved upon it. Cover the eggs with boiling water, al- low them to boil one minute, then move back to where the water remains at the boiling point but does not actually sim- mer. In five minutes remove from the fire, when the whites and yolks will be cooked to a jelly-like consistency, but not hardened. 54 MARCH 23D « 'And» Frances, lass, I brought some cresses in: Just wash them, toast the bacon, break some eggs." — Jean Ingelow ("Poems"). BACON may be very delicately pre- pared for an invalid (or a well person!) by chilling in iced- water before broiling over a brisk fire. When partly cooked remove quickly from the fire, plunge the pieces again in iced- water, shake the water off and return to the broiler. Serve very hot, with cresses fresh from the brook and you have a dainty rural breakfast. MARCH 24TH "I eat my apples, relish what is ripe." — Robert Brownino (" Ferishtah's Fancies"). INTO a tablespoonful of hot butter stir two tablespoonfuls of flour

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