Custard

Ingredients

• 2 cups hot milk
• 1 egg
• 4% cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon Blue Ribbon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs slightly, add sugar, salt, and flavoring.

2. 2

   Slowly pour over this the scalded milk, and stir until sugar is dissolved.

3. 3

   Strain into greased individual moulds, or larger dish.

4. 4

   If desired, grate nutmeg over top.

5. 5

   Set in a pan of hot water, below boiling point, and bake in a moderate oven until custard is done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Blue Ribbon cook book (1905) by Blue Ribbon Limited, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

custard sauce and pour over the rice balls just before serving. Tapioca Pudding—}4 cup pearl, or 114 tablespoons minute tapioca. Soak pearl tapioca in water to cover about an hour. Drain, if necessary. Add tapioca to 2 cups scalded milk, and cook in double boiler until trans- parent. Beat yolk of an egg, 14 teaspoon salt, and 14 cup sugar, add tapioca mixture gradually. Put back into double-boiler and cook for 10 or 15 minutes. Fold in stiffly beaten egg white, and 1 teaspoon Blue Ribbon flavoring. ; This may be served hot, or very cold. A custard sauce is often poured over it. Apple Tapioca—Omit egg and pour cooked tapioca over small apples left whole, pared, and cored, and filled with sugar. Bake in a moderate oven until apples are soft. Tapioca Nut Cream—Put cooked tapioca into small moulds. Chill and turn into a dish, garnish with apricots and whipped cream, flavored with Blue Ribbon vanilla. Add chopped walnuts if desired. Sago Pudding—This can be used the same as tapioca. Puddings 97 Bread and Butter Pudding—Break slices of buttered bread into pieces. Put in greased baking dish, and pour in raw custard to nearly fill the dish. Let stand 4% hour, then cook in the oven in a pan of hot water. 14 to 1 cup of raisins or other fruit may be added. Custard—2 cups hot milk, 1 egg, 4% cup sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, 4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Blue Ribbon vanilla

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