Custard Sauce

Ingredients

• a pint and a gill of milk
• one-third of a cupful of sugar
• the grated yellow rind of one orange
• half a saltspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Put one pint of milk into a double-boiler, grate the orange rind into it, and heat.

2. 2

   Beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar, add the gill of cold milk, then pour the hot milk on this mixture.

3. 3

   Stir well, return to the double-boiler, and cook for five minutes, stirring constantly.

4. 4

   Add the salt and cool.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 340. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

custard sauce made as follows : — ' Sauce. — Use a pint and a gill of milk, one-third of a cupful of sugar, the grated yellow rind of one orange, and half a saltspoonful of salt

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