Soft Custard

Ingredients

• 1 c. milk scalded
• 1 tbsp. sugar
• 1 egg
• I tsp. flavoring

Method

1. 1

   Beat the egg to a froth; stir in the sugar and salt; add hot milk and mix well.

2. 2

   Pour back into double boiler and stir constantly until the foam disappears and the custard coats the spoon, feeling thick and smooth like cream.

3. 3

   Strain through a gravy strainer, cool quickly, add flavoring, and serve as a sauce with rice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The school kitchen textbook (1915) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

soft custard. This substance hardens into a lump, and it is unpleasant to find it in what would otherwise be a smooth mass. In eggs cooked in the shell, or cooked hard as in cake, it is not perceptible. Recipe, No. 47. Dropped or Poached Eggs on Toast Toast a slice of bread for each egg and trim neatly. Have a clean shallow pan nearly full of salted, boiling water. Remove all the scum and let the water simmer. Break each egg carefully into a saucer, and slip it gently into the simmering water. Dip the water over them with a spoon, and when a film has formed over the yolk and the white is firm, take each egg up with a skimmer, drain, trim off any rough edges, and place it on the toast. Sprinkle salt and pepper on each egg. Recipe, No. 48. Soft-cooked Eggs Put the eggs into a stewpan, half full of boiling water, and cover ; let them stand from six to ten minutes where the water will keep hot (180°), but not boiling. The white should be soft and jellylike, and the yolk soft but not liquid. If cooked in boiling water, cook from three to five minutes. Recipe, No. 49. Hard-cooked Eggs Cook them twenty minutes, in water just bubbling. The yolk of an egg cooked twenty minutes is dry, mealy, and easily digested ; but cooked ten minutes in rapidly boiling water, it is tough and takes longer to digest. Recipe, No. 50. Soft Custard 1 c. milk scalded. 1 tbsp. sugar. 1 egg. I tsp. flavoring

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