Lemon Custards

Ingredients

• 20 units of milk
• 4 units yolk of egg
• 2 of white sugar
• 1 unit of lemon juice
• 2 units white of egg

Method

1. 1

   Boil the milk.

2. 2

   Beat the yolks with sugar, pour on boiling milk, and strain.

3. 3

   Stir until thick, add lemon juice, and essence.

4. 4

   Put into buttered moulds and steam.

5. 5

   When cold, turn out and sauce with beaten white of egg mixed with sugar and lemon juice.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete Indian housekeeper & cook (1898) by Flora Annie Webster Steel, page 222. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lemon Custards.— Boil 20 units of milk to 10. Beat 4 units yolk of egg till they are thick with 2 of white sugar. Pour on the boiling milk, and strain. Stir till a little thick, then add 1 unit of lemon juice, and some essence. Put into little moulds well buttered, and steam. When cold, turn out, and sauce with 2 units white of ^SS> beaten up with three of white sugar, and 2 of lemon juice added by degrees. 0. Light-house Pudding. — Prepare eight moulds as for Cassel Puddings. AThen cold, pare the widest end to make them stand firm, cut a circular bit from the other end, scoop out the inside, and fill with any pastry cream (see Pastry), or with jam. Stick round the top slices of almonds like the sj)okes of a wheel. Pile alternate pink and white whipped cream on the tops, and serve witli a sweet-flavoured syrup round. 7. Meringue of Rice. — Three units of rice boiled in 20 of milk till quite stiff, stir in 2 units sugar, some vanilla, 1 unit of butter, and 2 of yolk of egg. Shape a neat border round a dish that will stand the oven. Decorate it with sliced green citron or orange chips in a slanting ])attern, and alternate raisins and almonds round the top. Fill the centre with any stewed fruit without the juice, and pour over a custard made with ^ unit cornflour, 5 of Housekeeper and Cook 319 milk, and 1 of yolk of egg. Push into the oven to set the custard, theidpile over it 3 units white of egg

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.