Pear Custard

Ingredients

• 4 oz. COX’S INSTANT POWDERED GELATINE
• # pint milk
• 1 OZ. sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful lemon juice
• 6 large pears or a small tin
• $ teaspoonful vanilla essence

Method

1. 1

   Peel and core the pears, simmer till tender in water with a little sugar or in some syrup from the tin.

2. 2

   Then drain off, setting aside 4 gill of the drained syrup.

3. 3

   Chop the pears and put them in a glass dish.

4. 4

   Make a custard with the milk, yolks of eggs, sugar, and vanilla.

5. 5

   Dissolve the Gelatine in the 4 gill of pear syrup which was set aside, add the lemon juice, and stir into the custard.

6. 6

   When beginning to set, pour over the pears.

7. 7

   When cold, decorate with meringue made by whisking the whites of eggs till stiff.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cox's manual of gelatine cookery (copyright) (1938) by J. & G. Cox Limited, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PEAR CUSTARD. Five persons 4 oz. COX’S INSTANT POWDERED GELATINE # pint milk I OZ. sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoonful lemon juice 6 large pears or a small tin $ teaspoonful vanilla essence

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