Danish Custard

Ingredients

• # cup sugar, caramelized.
• 1 quart milk.
• + cup sugar.
• 6 eggs.
• 4 teaspoon salt.
• 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Method

1. 1

   Put two-thirds cup sugar in agate pudding dish, place on hot part of range and stir constantly until sugar is melted and a syrup of light brown color is formed; then set pan at once in larger pan of cold water to stop the cooking.

2. 2

   Beat eggs slightly, add plain sugar, milk, salt and vanilla and strain into pan lined with caramel.

3. 3

   Set in pan of hot water and bake until firm.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from What to Have for Dinner (1905) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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