Sauce for Sweet Boiled Puddings

Ingredients

• half a pint of new milk
• a thin strip of fresh lemon rind
• a little cinnamon
• half an inch of vanilla bean
• two ounces of sugar
• the well-beaten yolks of three eggs
• half a teaspoonful of flour
• a few grains of salt
• a tablespoonful of milk

Method

1. 1

   Boil milk with lemon rind, cinnamon, vanilla, and sugar until flavored.

2. 2

   Strain and pour slowly to yolks mixed with flour, salt, and milk, stirring quickly.

3. 3

   Put into saucepan and stir until thickened.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 193. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SAUCE FOR SWEET BOILED PUDDINGS.— Take half a pint of new milk, a thin strip of fresh lemon rind, a little cinnamon, half an inch of vanilla bean, and two ounces of sugar. Boil gently together until the milk is flavoured ; then strain, and pour it slowly to the well- beaten yolks of three eggs, smoothly mixed with half a teaspoonful of flour, a few grains of salt, and a tablespoonful of milk

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