Lemon Custard

Ingredients

• a cup of water
• a tablespoonful of flour, or corn-starch
• the yolks of three eggs
• a cup of brown sugar
• the juice of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Boil the water and stir in the flour or corn-starch.

2. 2

   Beat the yolks with the sugar and add the lemon juice.

3. 3

   Pour this into the paste and bake.

4. 4

   While baking, beat the whites with pulverized sugar and spread on the baked custard, browning slightly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LEMON CUSTABD. Boil a cup of water, and stir into it a tablespoonf ul of flour, or corn-starch. Beat the yolks of three eggs with a cup of brown sugar. Add the juice of a lemon

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