Custard Sauce

Ingredients

• ½ pint milk
• 1 oz. sugar
• 1 ege

Method

1. 1

   Put milk into a saucepan, and when it boils, stir in cornflour.

2. 2

   Allow to boil for a few minutes, then add sugar.

3. 3

   Beat the egg well, pour the sauce upon it, stirring all the time, but do not allow the sauce to boil after the egg is added.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Bile Beans cookery book (1931) by Ltd C.E. Fulford, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CUSTARD SAUCE. with little cold milk. Put remainder of § pint milk _ into saucepan, and when it boils stir in cornflour, allow to boil for few mins., then add 1 oz. sugar and little favouring. Beat 1 ege well, pour sauce upon it, Stirring all time, but do not allow sauce to boil after egg is added. PARSLEY: SAUCE «—(Quick method). 1 pint milk, +% pint water, piece of butter size of small egg. Put in ‘Saucepan on gas to boil (having added pepper and salt), Mix 4 tablespoonsful flour with water to con- sistency ofcream., When milk boils, pour into basin, mix with paste and return whole lot into saucepan and boil up again. Note.—Wash parsley, then pour boiling watery on, and rinse. Chop and put into sauce, ‘This isa special tip to save time in chopping. BREAD SAUCE. stick 4 cloves into it, cut in two and simmer in 1 pint milk until tender, Crumble some stale bread or break _ bread into small pieces, and pour hot milk over it. Let soak for 4 hr., having strained onion from milk before bread is added ; the bread being crushed with _ fork. Put sauce back into pan to simmer for while, add 1 oz, butter, little pepper and salt, and pour into” tureen or basin. BOILED BEETROOT.—Piace beetroot in pan of boiling water, Do not wash or you are liable to break - tendrils and cause beetroot to bleed and destroy colour. Boil 14 to 2 hrs. When done, skin and slice with 3 ~- vinegar as a pickle, or serve with white sauce over as a vegetable, — ONION SAUCE. - untilquite tender, then chop finely, Melt I oz. butter _ im saucepan and stir in 1 oz, flour. When quite smooth, add + pint water, 4 pint milk,

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