Solid Custard

Ingredients

• One quart of new milk
• six ounces of sugar
• the yolks of five eggs
• half an ounce of Iceland moss
• one ounce of isinglass
• a piece of cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Boil the moss or isinglass in the milk till dissolved, adding the sugar and a piece of cinnamon.

2. 2

   Beat the yolks of the eggs well; mix them with the milk; strain, and set it on the fire, stirring constantly till it becomes about the consistency of a boiled custard; add a few drops of almond flavour, and when cool, pour it into a mould.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 107. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Solid Cu.stard. One quart of new milk, six ounces of sugar, the yolks of five eggs, and half an ounce of Iceland moss, or one ounce of isin- glass. Boil the moss or isinglass in the milk till dissolved, adding the sugar and a piece of cinnamon

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