Lemon Custard
From Durham cook book ..., 1921
Recipe by Mrs. C. B. Laws.
Presented as published in 1921. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Grate rind of two lemons, juice of one lemon, three eggs, one half cup butter, three cups sugar, two tablespoonfuls flour to thicken. Cook slowly. — Mrs. C. B. Laws. CHOCOLATE CUSTARD. Dissolve chocolate, four eggs, two cups sugar, one cup butter. Cook slowly. — Mrs. C. B. Laws. CHESS CUSTARD. Yolks of tAvo eggs, one cup sugar, butter size of an egg. Beat well and cook slowly; when brown take out of the oven and add meringue, flavor with vanilla. — Mrs. T. L. Bailey. CHOCOLATE CUSTARD. One cup milk, one and one-half tablespoonfuls chocolate, yolks of two eggs, three-fourths cup white sugar, two tablespoonfuls flour. Let milk come to a boil, in double boiler, add chocolate, sugar, flour and eggs beaten together; stir until thick. Cream together, one and one-half table- spoonfuls butter and three-fourths cup brown sugar and one teaspoonful vanilla. First spread the chocolate filling on a cooked pie crust, then spread the caramel filling and lastly the whites of two eggs to which two tablespoonfuls of sugar have been added"^ and bake a light brown. — Miss Axxie Louise Vaughax. LEMOX CUSTARD. Four eggs, beaten separately, one cup sugar, one table- spoonful butter, one tablespoonful flour in one-half cup water, one lemon. This makes two pies. — Mrs. E. E. Bernard. 49 USE DAN RIVER SELF-RISING FLOUR ^OVR PINTS of jelly in each package of KNOX GELATINE AUNT PEARL'S SWEET POTATO CUSTAED. Two cups mashed potatoes, two cups sugar^ one cup sweet milk, five eggs, one teaspoonful grated nutmeg, one-half cup butter. To potatoes add one-half teaspoonful Royal Baking Powder. Beat yolks of eggs and add to potatoes, then melted butter, sugar and milk. Beat until very light. Put in two pie crusts and bake. Remove from oven and while hot spread a layer of peach or apple preserves on top. Then the meringue, and brown. — Mrs. Isham King. LEMON FILLING. Three eggs, beaten with two cups sugar, butter size of an egg (melted). Juice and grated rind of two lemons — Mrs. E. E. Bernard. LEMON PIE. Grated rind and juice of one lemon
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